[imp] poppasswd.php3

[Nuno Silva]

Hello,

if you have ldap you don't need poppasswd!

I wouldn't advise it (as I don't advise poppasswd...) but you can
use ldap_*() functions in php and bind to the ldap server and change the 
passwords ;)

regards,
nuno

James Tavares wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> First post to this list. I am active on some other lists, namely
> qmail-ldap. (Really interesting, huh?)
> 
> And as such, here is my question: Does anyone know if a poppasswd serve=
r
> that plays with LDAP? Interesting feature, except my users don't come o=
ut
> of /etc/passwd.
> 
> Thanks,
> James
> 
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Alain Fauconnet wrote:
> 
> :Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:40:23 +0700
> :From: Alain Fauconnet <alain@cscoms.net>
> :Reply-To: imp@lists.horde.org
> :To: imp@lists.horde.org
> :Subject: Re: [imp] poppasswd.php3
> :
> :On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 03:25:01PM -0300, Marcus Fernando Mintz dos Sa=
ntos
> wrote:
> :> Hi,
> :> I'm ney to IMP and have a Mandrake 7.2 with IMP 2.2.4 implemented
> succesfully.
> :> My only problem is that i can provide to my users the change of ther=
e
> :> passwords. In the documentation, i read the parameters in the
> default.php3 and
> :> activated that function with the built-in poppasswd.php3 function.
> :> The link is OK, but when i press the button to change the password. =
I get
> the
> :> 111 error: Conection refused. The web server is in the same machine =
of
> the
> :> password server. Is there any program that i must have running to li=
sten
> in the
> :> port 106 as it´s in the documentation ?
> :> How can i put this function to work ?
> :
> :Hello Marcus,
> :
> :Yes, you need a program called (suprise!) "poppasswd". It  listens  to=

> :port 106 and talks a POP-like protocol that  allows  users  to  change=

> :their password.
> :
> :There are several versions floating around, have a look  on  ftpsearch=

> :or google. I'm fairly sure that ready-to-run versions for Linux should=

> :be  easy  to  find.  I  had to hack the source code somewhat to have a=

> :version run reliably on FreeBSD.
> :
> :I got mine from: ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/eudora/servers/unix/password
> :
> :Cheers,
> :_Alain_
> :--
> :Alain FAUCONNET
> :Sr. System Administrator
> :CS Communications Co. Ltd. - Thailand
> :
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