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? I don't think so. "root" usually does not exist in LDAP, only in /etc/passwd, so "root" is not really an LDAP user. I suppose you could use ldappasswd and bind as "cn=directory manager" instead if you know the user is an LDAP user. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3258 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20081211/c5c7b023/attachment.bin
