> Understood...but say an administrator enabled that option in 
> the openfire admin console...is there any way to keep sipX 
> from reverting it back at random times? 

No there isn't.  SipX disables the openfire admin and assumes that all 
openfire-related configuration changes are made through sipXconfig

> Is it even sipX doing the reverting?

Yes it is.  And this will happen every time the xmppaccounts.xml file gets 
replicated.



> 
> On 05/31/2010 10:18 AM, JOLY, ROBERT (ROBERT) wrote:
> >> I am wondering why allowing users to reset their IM 
> password from the 
> >> IM client is disabled, and why sipX overwrites the password if a 
> >> users sets it from the IM client. I enabled the option in the 
> >> openfire admin console for users to change their password 
> from the IM 
> >> client and it works for a while (exact time unknown) then some 
> >> passwords get set back to the original password I set for 
> the user in 
> >> sipXconfig. Is sipX or openfire doing this? BTW the reason I want 
> >> users to be able to change their passwords is because it's a lot 
> >> easier to change it in the IM program than navigating through the 
> >> sipX portal to change the IM password
> >>      
> > SipXconfig is the master of all passwords in the system, 
> including those for IMs - changing passwords from the IM 
> client is not allowed.  One of the benefits is that the 
> administrator can keep the control over the password complexity.
> 
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