Sahil Tandon wrote: > My dovecot is currently configured to authenticate vs. a userdb/passdb > passwd-file that contains, for each user: > > username:passhash:5000:5000::/path/to/home::userdb_mail=/path/to/maildir > > Is it possible to let users authenticate and change their passwords? There > are some webmail client add-ons that allow such things if users are system > accounts or in a MySQL/LDAP db. Does anyone else use passdb/userdb > passwd-files like above and have a method for allowing users to change their > passwords from the web? > > Sorry for the slightly off-topic question, but hoping another Dovecot admin > has solved this problem. Preference is to not to be tied to any particular > webmail client just for this change password feature. >
There isn't a general utility to do that. I wrote a simple script for one such case, namely sork-passwd from the Horde suite. The script just receives the username, old password and new password from stdin and then changes the password entry in a file. But I'm using only passwd files, without the extra fields in a userdb file. Besides that, there are other things that could have been done in a better way. If you want to take a look, I posted it here some time ago: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2008-June/031629.html -- Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb
