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

[Rich Megginson]

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.
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