Sahil Tandon wrote:
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> Thanks Eduardo.  That looks like something I might've been able to modify 
> for our needs but using it with sork would require us to install the 
> entire Horde, which we do not want

If you have another similar application that can output the
username/password parameters (or can write one easily), the
password-changing script should be easy to adapt to that case.

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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