[Dovecot] related, but off-topic: how to allow users to change password?

[Sahil Tandon]

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo at kalinowski.com.br> 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.

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Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>