[Systems] Forgot my LDAP Password

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Wed Jan 31 16:52:12 EST 2018


Agreed.  LDAP is for a scale we don't have, and GitHub provides some
of the features we needed shell accounts for.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 07:44:51PM +0900, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Yes, the problem as I understand it is that the pam module can't write
> to the LDAP databaase.
> 
> Only the web form works, and I was never able to figure how to configure
> ACLs so that a user can update their own password hash (but of course
> not write directly to it!).
> 
> OpenLDAP is obscure and scarcely documented, I think it might be time to
> bury it and go back to a normal passwd file for the sake of simplicity.
> 
> IMHO, we don't have enough shell users to justify the complexity that
> LDAP brings.
> 
> On 30/01/18 22:30, Ignacio Rodríguez wrote:
> > ldap.slo worked
> > 
> > 2018-01-30 10:29 GMT-03:00, Ignacio Rodríguez <ignacio at sugarlabs.org>:
> >> I found the old one but got this on the console
> >>
> >> ignacio at ubuntu:~$ ssh people
> >> You are required to change your password immediately (password aged)
> >> Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64)
> >> Last login: Tue Jan 30 08:28:33 2018 from 186.48.13.48
> >> WARNING: Your password has expired.
> >> You must change your password now and login again!
> >> Enter login(LDAP) password:
> >> passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered
> >> passwd: password unchanged
> >> Connection to people.sugarlabs.org closed.
> >> ignacio at ubuntu:~$
> >>
> >>
> >> will try with the website Samson sent
> >>
> >> 2018-01-29 17:08 GMT-03:00, Samson Goddy <samsongoddy at gmail.com>:
> >>> According to my last discussion with Sam..
> >>>
> >>> https://ldap.sugarlabs.org/
> >>>
> >>> This should help.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 29, 2018 8:12 PM, "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Same thing happened to me. I was going to wait for Sam to return.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Ignacio Rodríguez
> >>>> <ignacio at sugarlabs.org>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi everyone, I have forgot my password/LDAP password of sunjammer.
> >>>>> Is there any way to reset it and set it to something I can change
> >>>>> later?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You are required to change your password immediately (password aged)
> >>>>> Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64)
> >>>>> Last login: Mon Jan 29 14:00:31 2018 from 167.58.2.61
> >>>>> WARNING: Your password has expired.
> >>>>> You must change your password now and login again!
> >>>>> Enter login(LDAP) password:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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