Re: preventing user changing password?

[Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>]

Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

> Is it possible on the server to prevent specific principals changing
> their passwords other than by writing a passwd_check function for
> kpasswdd?  (The situation is a shared id whose password shouldn't be
> able to be clobbered by users.)

Right now, no.

I've been meaning to write a externalized passwd_check pluging (for
program, and provide principal and password on stdin) but havn't got around
to it.

Love

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