[Dovecot] Changing password for users

[Simon Brereton]

On Oct 25, 2012 7:20 PM, "Mike John" <mike at alaadin.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using dovecot (2.0.9) and using virtual users using
>>
>> passdb {
>> args = /etc/dovecot/dovecotpasswd
>> driver = passwd-file
>> }
>>
>> How can i make my virtual users change their passwords using web
>> interface ?
>>
>> My users already uses squirrelmail to access their mail. is there a
>> program to add to squirrelmail to add this function to the clients ?
>> or should i user different separate website for password changing ?
>> and what program/tool can help me with this ?
>>
>> Any ideas is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Mike.
>> Mike,
>
>
>> I don't know about forcing users to change their passwords however with
>> Squirrelmail there are several password change plugins available that
>> use "poppasswd" to actually change the password.
>
>
>> Of course poppasswd will probably need to be modified to go against your
>> password data base, in my case it simply uses PAM. The version I use is
>> poppassd version 1.8.5.
>
>
>> Oh you probably want to restrict access to the port from the local host
>> only since passwords are transmitted in clear text.
>
>
>> Jeff
>
>
> I know about poppassd , but it works only for /etc/passwd , /etc/shadow,
but my dovecot virtual users password files
> are in different location and i do not know how to modify poppassd, any
idea how can i do that? and is there another way other than poppassd?

Horde has a change password module too.

And essentially it's trivial to write your own php page to do it. I'll do
it if you want to contract it out.

Simon