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

Sahil Tandon sahil at tandon.net
Mon Aug 4 05:00:28 EEST 2008


Patrick Nagel <patrick.nagel at star-group.net> wrote:

> Sahil Tandon wrote:
> | Thanks for the tip Patrick.  Unfortunately this will not work for me
> | because I need to change passwords for virtual users -- the users are 
> | not system users found in /etc/passwd, but rather virtual users that 
> | are listed in a passwd style file in /usr/local/etc/dovecot/passwd.
>
> Oh, read your mail too quickly... sorry.

No worries.  I've since switched to storing userdb and passdb in MySQL, 
for which there are a variety of "plugins" to change user passwords.

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>


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