[horde] Re: LDAP authentication and password resets

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 09:26 +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von Kevin Myer <kevin_myer at iu13.org>:
> 
> > It looks to me like on the customsql authentication backend supports password
> > changing (unless thats modified or changed somewhere else).  It seems 
> > like with
> > at least one of the backends (LDAP), if you specified a user with adequate
> > priveleges in the horde config file (i.e. set binddn and password to 
> > an account
> > and password with directory manager priveleges, for a given tree), that the
> > LDAP authentication could also support resetting of passwords.  Any 
> > reason why
> > this wasn't done or has no one had the need to do it?
> 
> Because this is a very new feature, and noone needed it for LDAP so 
> far. Patches welcome.
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Seems to be of little benefit since much of LDAP integrates with other
services to provide single sign on and changing userPassword attr but
not sambaNTPassword or sambaLMPassword is of little interest - at least
to me.

Might be of interest to those using it for virtual hosting though.

Craig