Absolutely, I agree. I have tried to find documentation on getting nss_ldap to work correctly on each Red Hat client box, but after various tries, various openldap forums, I had no luck. In fact, when I posted the question to the OpenLdap forum, none there had a clue. They told that the passwd command should "just work" once Openldap is working and authenticating. If you know of the proper configuration documentation for nss_ldap that explains how to configure to get the regular passwd feature working I would love to read it! Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris St. Pierre Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:25 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: How to create encrypted password via command line On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Anne Moore wrote: > Yes, it's for Openldap. Unfortunately, slappasswd is not installed on > any of our Red Hat boxes (60 of them). It's only installed on the one OpenLdap box. > > I wanted them to be able to log into any of the boxes, run the create > new password commands, and then copy the encrypted output and send to > the administrator so he can change their passwords on Openldap without > knowing what their password actually is. > > Is there a way that you know of that they can copy and past in their > own encrypted password, bypassing having to send them to the > administrator to do it? Why can't you just properly configure nss_ldap so that the passwd command does the right thing? Failing that, write a quick Perl script that mimics passwd. Involving the administrator at all seems unnecessary here. Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
