On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Sean Boran wrote:
Would it be thinkable that users change their password8s) via web interface, such as *phpldapadmin*?
I suppose you could. Password-changing wasn't really the main problem I was having, but you can certainly set it up to do that. It's probably simple enough if that's all you want, that you could write the scripts yourself.
The Windows tool LdapAdmin can change both passwords at once, but its not suitable for end users. Newer versions of phpldapadmion do it too, but I've not yet checked to see if the GUI is usable for end users..
If anything, I'm finding that newer versions of phpLdapAdmin are getting more user-hostile even for sysadmins. When I create a new Posix account, it doesn't even create LDAP objects for shadowAccount (to mimic /etc/shadow) like older versions used to automatically, and that's needed just to have enough there to let the user login. I now have to manually make the shadowAccount object every time I create an account. Makes me wonder about opening an application that's moving in this direction to end-users...probably would be better to make your own password changing script.
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