I use a program called LDAP Administration Tool (available in debian apt repo, name = 'lat') which is a gtk app that allows LDAP administration. Simply connect as 'directory manager' and you can change passwords through the interface without needing to know the previous password. Ryan Manikowski System Administrator 2ergo Americas Inc. :703.677.8499: www.2ergo.com Arlington, Virginia This message (including attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. The content and views expressed are those of the sender and not necessarily the 2ergo Group. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose, copy or use any part of it. Please delete all copies immediately and notify the sender. 2ergo Americas Inc. was formerly known as Proteus Inc. Orion Poplawski wrote: > I'm used to being able to change user's passwords as root using the > "passwd" command on my main server (this was with NIS and the master > shadow file kept on the server). Now with FDS, I get: > > # passwd orion > Changing password for user orion. > Enter login(LDAP) password: > > and I must enter the password for the user "orion". This gets tricky > when the user has forgotten their password. > > Is there a way to avoid this first check and allow root to force a > change of the password? >
