I think the idea of the webpass is to allow a user to
have a separate password for their web email. In the
vpopmail auth module I made it also update thier vpopmail
password, so things stay together. You would probably
have to modify the authmodule you are using to update
the system password.
Ken Jones
inter7
Jim Steele writes:
> Maybe I'm just confused, but sqwebmail's change-password feature seems
> counter-intuitive to me. What am I misunderstanding here?
>
> I looked, and can't seem to find the text "--disable-webpass" in the
> INSTALL document. I assume it's different than "--enable-webpass=no"
> which in fairness I do see described, but it's not clear how so.
>
> Here's what I'm after.
>
> I'd really like to let the user, using the easy sqwebmail interface,
> change his/her single system-wide password, not a cached one. After
> doing so, he/she would expect, for example, to telnet into a shell
> account using the same newly changed password.
>
> It doesn't seem to work this way - after the first sqwebmail login,
> user passwords seem inextricably forked.
>
> One password per user is plenty, please. If you let users log in
> using a given authentication mechanism (e.g. authpam, mysql, etc), I'd
> expect to see functions of that same mechanism used when changing the
> password.
>
> If it already works, please explain. If not, please correct.
>
> JS
>
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:52:13AM +0000, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>
>> Use the --disable-webpass option to the configure script. See INSTALL.
>>
>> --
>> Sam
>>
