[horde] passwd with Horde 4

[Kareem Dana]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2011, 20:19:17 schrieb Kareem Dana:
> > I just saw Ralf's post, but I didn't want to hijack his thread with my
> own
> > passwd question. Right now I used passwd with the poppassd driver on
> Horde
> > 3 in production and am gearing up to move to Horde 4.
> >
> > I am using the passwd code from git which I downloaded on June 6. It
> works,
> > but does not reset my credentials within Horde, so I have to log out and
> > log back in. My system is setup such that Horde authenticates via Imp and
> > Imp uses IMAP Authentication. When I change my password with passwd, it
> > successfully changes the password but IMP keeps trying to authenticate
> > with the old password. I understand this is unreleased code but I'm
> > willing and able to make some code changes to get this to work.
> >
> > Inside passwd/lib/Passwd.php I found the function resetCredentials which
> > calls setAuthCredential() to set the new password but that either doesn't
> > work or is not enough to get IMP to use the new password when talking to
> > the IMAP server. Does something else need to be called here or some
> cached
> > IMAP sessions invalidated? Any tips would be helpful as I'm familiar with
> > PHP but not the horde framework.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kareem Dana
>
> Hi Kareem, can you please file a bug report?
> I am on a long weekend holiday and might forget,
> but maybe you can patch it yourself.
>
> What resetCredentials basically needs to do (but doesn't) is
>
>  * look if the authentication backend is Horde_Auth_Application
>  * If so, call
>  $GLOBALS['registry']->setAuthCredential('password', $new_password,
> $appname);
> after
>  $GLOBALS['registry']->setAuthCredential('password', $new_password);
>
>
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I submitted a bug report Ticket #10228. I added an additional comment
because I tried what you suggested and IMP still did not authenticate with
the new password. It didn't even try to log back into the IMAP server.
Thanks for taking a look at it.

- Kareem