Re: [Dovecot] Changing password for users
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?
On Oct 25, 2012 7:20 PM, "Mike John" <mike@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
On 2012-10-26 01:17, Mike John 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 c> ssword. 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> sion 1.8.5. Oh you probably want to restrict access to the port from the local host only since pas ansmitted in clear
quot e>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?
i have googled every where, i can not find how to modify poppassd to modify virtual users passwords at /etc/dovecot/passwords , Is there any other way ? i am sure that some one in this mailing list have virtual users and uses modified poppassd or other utils so that his clients can change their password
On 26-10-12 20:47, Mike John wrote:
On 2012-10-26 01:17, Mike John 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 c> ssword. 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> sion 1.8.5. Oh you probably want to restrict access to the port from the local host only since pas ansmitted in clear
quot e>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?
i have googled every where, i can not find how to modify poppassd to modify virtual users passwords at /etc/dovecot/passwords , Is there any other way ? i am sure that some one in this mailing list have virtual users and uses modified poppassd or other utils so that his clients can change their password
Using a database for managing virtual users seems overkill, until you run into issues like this.
I have a postgres backend for 20ish users, and I can plugin everything I want. Postfixadmin works geat, and there are many password plugins for squirrelmail/roundcube/etc that work with such a database.
Disclaimer: I tried the file-based approach too, but kept building kludges for things that were a lot simpler with a database. In the end, I joined the dark side.
-- Tom
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:04:13PM +0200, Tom Hendrikx wrote:
Using a database for managing virtual users seems overkill, until you run into issues like this.
I have a postgres backend for 20ish users, and I can plugin everything I want. Postfixadmin works geat, and there are many password plugins for squirrelmail/roundcube/etc that work with such a database.
Disclaimer: I tried the file-based approach too, but kept building kludges for things that were a lot simpler with a database. In the end, I joined the dark side.
SQLite gives me the best of both worlds: file-based stability with SQL flexibility and easy backups. There is no Postfixadmin-type solution out there yet, but if you're fine with sqlite3(1) in the console, you won't miss it.
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