[sork] Passwd H3 (3.0-RC1)

[Oliver Schulze L.]

Excelent News Jan,
thanks to the Horde Team and also to Eric from Sork.

I just tested it successfully under Horde3 against a poppassd server.

Thanks
Oliver

Jan Schneider wrote:

>The Horde Team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the
>Passwd Horde password changing application version H3 (3.0).
>
>Passwd provides fairly complete support for changing passwords via Poppassd,
>LDAP, Unix expect scripts, the Unix smbpasswd command for SMB/CIFS passwords,
>Kolab, ADSI, Pine, Serv-U FTP, VMailMgr, vpopmail, and SQL passwords.
>
>This is a preview version that should not be used on production systems.  This
>version is considered feature complete but there might still be a few bugs.
>You should not use this preview version over existing production data.
>
>We encourage widespread testing and feedback via the mailing lists or our bug
>tracking system.  Updated translations are very welcome, though some strings
>might still change before the final release.
>
>The major changes compared to the Passwd version H3 (3.0-BETA) are:
>    * Extended the expect script to allow setups with passwd as the login shell
>    * Display correct error message for failed passwords with LDAP drivers.
>    * Fixed updating of shadowlastchange attribute in LDAP driver.
>    * Updated documentation.
>    * Updated Finnish, French, Russian and Simplified Chinese translations.
>
>The major changes compared to the Passwd 2.x versions are:
>    * Compatible with Horde 3.
>    * New composite driver to change several passwords at once.
>    * New drivers: Kolab, Pine, proc_open(), Samba LDAP, and Windows (ADSI and
>      PSPASSWD)
>    * Additional password policy checks.
>    * TLS and SSL support for LDAP driver.
>    * Support for shadowLastChange and shadowMin LDAP attributes.
>    * Bind variables in SQL drivers.
>    * New translations: Catalan and Persian.
>    * More configuration options.
>
>The full list of changes (from version H3 (3.0-BETA)) can be viewed here:
>
>http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/passwd/docs/CHANGES?r1=1.68&r2=1.76&ty=h
>
>The Passwd H3 (3.0-RC1) distribution is available from the following locations:
>
>    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/passwd-h3-3.0-rc1.tar.gz
>    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/passwd-h3-3.0-rc1.tar.gz
>
>Patches against version H3 (3.0-BETA) are available at:
>
>    ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/patches/patch-passwd-h3-3.0-beta-h3-3.0-rc1.gz
>    http://ftp.horde.org/pub/passwd/patches/patch-passwd-h3-3.0-beta-h3-3.0-rc1.gz
>
>Or, for quicker access, download from your nearest mirror:
>
>    http://www.horde.org/mirrors.php
>
>MD5 sums for the packages are as follows:
>
>    8e8ec177bc1622d4607f182bf18f55b1  passwd-h3-3.0-rc1.tar.gz
>    335e4f8222aba43fc9b5be5b707b52c7  patch-passwd-h3-3.0-beta-h3-3.0-rc1.gz
>
>Have fun!
>
>The Horde Team.
>  
>

-- 
Oliver Schulze L.
<oliver at samera.com.py>