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?
I don't think so. "root" usually does not
exist in LDAP, only in
/etc/passwd, so "root" is not really an LDAP user. I suppose you could
use ldappasswd and bind as "cn=directory manager" instead if you know
the user is an LDAP user.