Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password
2012/5/9 Shaun <debian@gmsl.co.uk>:
> Hi all,
>
> How does one allow Windows users to set their own passwords if the IMAP
> server they're using is Debian? In the past I've got them to login from
> my computer via PuTTY where I've typed 'passwd user-name' and let them
> type their own pass, but this isn't really scalable as a solution. What
> do others to in a mixed Windows/Linux environment without having to
> resort to some GroupWare product?
Hello Shaun,
i'd recommend the following options:
- Usermin - a Web interface for Linux system users to login and change
aspects of their environment including passwords
(http://www.webmin.com/usermin.html)
- There are some hacks out there utilizing PHP and PAM
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3032785/php-pam-to-change-user-password)
for changing the password - keep in mind to restrict the change
password webpage to ssl only!
- As already mentioned most webmail apps come include plugins to
change passwords for various authentication backends; here's the list
for roundcube's "password"-plugin:
2. Drivers
2.1. Database (sql)
2.2. Cyrus/SASL (sasl)
2.3. Poppassd/Courierpassd (poppassd)
2.4. LDAP (ldap)
2.5. DirectAdmin Control Panel (directadmin)
2.6. cPanel (cpanel)
2.7. XIMSS/Communigate (ximms)
2.8. Virtualmin (virtualmin)
2.9. hMailServer (hmail)
2.10. PAM (pam)
2.11. Chpasswd (chpasswd)
2.12. LDAP - no PEAR (ldap_simple)
2.13. XMail (xmail)
Kind regards -sd
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