[sork] passwd doesn't change passwords

[Yu Wang]

Paul,

I configured the password using Expect option. It works after I modified 
several things from default installation. Since you didn't show your 
configurations, I can just suggest you to check several places for the Expect.

My expect uses SSH to connect users to a different server since the server 
running Horde doesn't allow general users login. 

Check the config/backends.php. Here is mine:
$backends['expect'] = array(
    'name' => 'User Server',
    'preferred' => '',
    'password policy' => array(
        'minLength' => '7',
        'maxLength' => '9',
        'minNumeric'=> '1',
        'minAlpha' => '1'
    ),
    'driver' => 'expect',
    'params' => array(
        'program' => '/usr/bin/expect',
        'script' => 'scripts/passwd_expect',
        'params' => '-ssh -host userserver.unf.edu -output /tmp/passwd.log'
    )
);

Then modify scripts/passwd_expect 

...
}elseif {[string match $login "ssh"]} {
   set pid [spawn ssh $host -l $user]
}
...

and turn on log:
log_user 1
this will log all things into /tmp/passwd.log

Then you can use "tail -f /tmp/passwd.log" and run the password program to see 
where is the problem that cause the failure. It may because the key 
verification prompt or terminal type prompt or even login shell prompt. You 
need to modify the Expect script to fit those prompts.

You may also want to change the timeout value to a shorter one. The default 
timeout 20 is kind too long.

Finally, do you have any rewrite rules turned on? A broken rewrite rule in 
Apache can cause the program redirected to login page. 

Hope this helps you pin the problem.

-- 
Yu Wang
Information Technology Services
University of North Florida
(904) 620-2820


Quoting Paul Lambert <paul at digis.net>:

> I have imp (using imap auth, and mysql), turba, and passwd installed and
> everything works except when I submit to change a users password it just
> goes to the imp login screen and doesn't change the password. It doesn't
> matter what I type in the username and Old password field either. It
> gives no errors on screen or in the logs. I have tried both poppassd (I
> tested poppassd manually and it works) and expect. It is almost as if
> the "change password" button doesn't do anything except take me to the
> login page. Has anyone had a similar problem. Also I followed these
> online instructions:
> http://www.geocities.com/oliversl/imp/
> 
> Anyone have a similar problem or have any suggestions?
> --
> Thanks in advance
> Paul
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