Subject: Re: Changing password through the Chooser -- only DHX auth enabled
From: Dick Visser (dick@tienhuis.nl)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 04:09:16 EST
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, David wrote:
> Is this possible to actually do or is the enable Change Password
> button on the Chooser just a tease? Here is the line from my
> afpd.conf file for the server.
>
> - -transall -uamlist uams_dhx.so -nosavepassword -setpassword
>
> When I actually click Change Password and go through the motions it gives me:
>
> "Your password cannot be changed. Contact your system administrator
> or try again."
>
> I'm not sure what is up here. I know with randnum and rand2num you
> had to have a .passwd file in each users home dir - is that still the
> case. I've of course tried and it doesn't seem to be.
Its because the passwords you choose were not good enough ;-)
Try something *really* hard to guess.
This is all because you have libcrack somewhere.
Think about that: when you have libcrack and you want to change your
passwd on the unix side, if its too easy (linux at least) tells you:
Incorrect passwd: ITS BASED ON A DICTIONARY WORD.
Netatalk only has one errormsg if passwd changing fails i guess.
At my mac it worked when I tried a *real* passwd instead of that easy to
guess one i had.
Be carefull if you already *have* a nice short easy password and you
change it via the chooser, you cannot change it back into something easy.
Unless you are the sysadmin yourself of course...
Bye
--Dick Visser
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