[Fedora-directory-users] Allow root to change user's passwords

[Orion Poplawski]

Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm used to being able to change user's passwords as root using the
> "passwd" command on my main server (this was with NIS and the master
> shadow file kept on the server).  Now with FDS, I get:
>
> # passwd orion
> Changing password for user orion.
> Enter login(LDAP) password:
>
> and I must enter the password for the user "orion".  This gets tricky
> when the user has forgotten their password.
>
> Is there a way to avoid this first check and allow root to force a
> change of the password?
>

The answer is to set rootbinddn in /etc/ldap.conf and put the directory 
manager password into /etc/ldap.secret.

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