My company has policy that user accounts expire once a month and they also get locked out if they re-try login more than 3 times (pam_tally). It gets very annoying every time they come and ask to get password changed.How do I let users change their own password? Also let the system email them every day for two weeks before password expiration and until they change their password?
View 5 RepliesI'm using on my smb.conf
# Sincronizacion de cuentas LDAP, NT y LM
# unix password sync = Yes
ldap passwd sync = Yes
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I'm using opensuse and i'm trying that users cannot change his own password (mantaining /bin/bash users active). Do you know how can I do it?
View 10 Replies View Relatedregarding the file permissions of /etc/passwd in fact it has permissions like rw-r--r--so it says others have only read only permissions but my questions is if others has read only permissions on /etc/passwd file.how they are able to change their password i.e others are able to change their passwords then how it is possible.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have squid server running FC7. i have created a ncsa authentication for windows user to use internet through squid proxy.
My problem is that the each created user should be able to change their password.
- Is there a way, using NCSA authentication, to allow users to change their passwords?
- Is there a way to use windows AD password for squid authentication. if so how?
I want to create a webpage where users can change their samba password and before I jump to PHP code i want to write perl code that can be called in php code.I have created two file 1. main.pl - this script actually switch user and call passwd.pl2. passwd.pl - this is actually changes the password {main.pl}
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $username = $ARGV[0];
my $oldpass = $ARGV[1];
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It seems that karmic has changed the behavior of Gnome's cpufreqselector, so that it requires root authority to make changes, and those changes don't persist after a reboot.
Is there a way to make changes persistent? Is there a way to let admin users change the setting without having to enter a password every time?
I installed SLES 10.2 with SAMBA 3.5.5.43 to retire our old Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and save some money. All was fine until last week when our chief asked to me to set password expiration for all clients. This morning, all users cannot logon because, when they logon, windows asks to change password and then it gives error error "Access Denied".
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Im trying to config my intranet to be accessible from inside the network (lan) without need of password and ask for a passwd for those who are viewing from Wan ....
Today my intranet can only be accessed from Lan, external access give me an Unauthorized message, I took look around, try #irc and still can get the appropriated help, I hope that someone here could help me on that...
A piece of my config:
Code:
I am wondering how websites like banks are able to determine if you have previously used a certain computer to access the website, even if your router's IP address may have changed and your system's cookies have been cleared. I have users that need to access our HTTP intranet from outside locations. Those locations will have dynamic IP addresses most of the time, so I can't just "allow from [ip]" in my Apache proxy configuration. Originally we considered a VPN, but determined that a VPN will be overkill to access just an internal website, since we do not want external users to have permission to the rest of the network, only the website.I currently have it working over HTTPS with basic authentication against an internal LDAP server, but I want a little more security for such an important website.
crappy diagram:
[user]-->(internet via https)-->[apache gateway]-->(intranet)-->[http server]
I have configured the SFTP Jail for some of the users in my sftp server and which is hosted for my clients.i have one small issues and i need the help from experts. e /../jajil/etc/shadow file. can you please help me how to update the password in /../jail/etc/shadow file instead of updating in /etc/shadow file.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have found users on my linux machine by using command.
Then i locked some of users which were not required.
Now how to find list of users which are locked .
I tried a command for this
But it respond as
How to find list of locked users?
I'm running Ardour, and when I launch it I get the following:
Code:
WARNING: Your system has a limit for maximum amount of locked memory!
This might cause Ardour to run out of memory before your system runs
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I've been running Ubuntu Maverick as a fresh install since release, and for the last 2 days, I'm having to log in twice! This is only on a locked screen, not on reboot or switch users. After the first login, I see the desktop for a second, then the screen goes blank. I wiggle the mouse and the login screen is there again. The 2nd login goes as normal.
I have gradually been installing things as I need them over the week since install, but I can't pin it down to any of those. It's getting pretty annoying when the screen saver kicks in!
I am using squid + dansguardian for web and content filtering. And it is working fine. I am forcing users to use proxy through browser configuration. Now I am planning to add another layer to controlling access using ncsa_auth program. I know it is not the most secured but I am fine with it. Plain passwords are fine with me.
I will be giving users some default passwords but I want some program for allowing users to change the passwords for the respective users if they want. Is there any perl script or something web based for the purpose that anyone is using or know of?
just now i have installed squid, it works fine with authentication . I created this authentication in a simple text file by using htpasswd . my question is that is there any web based simple page to change passwords of squid users, because each and every time i cant give direct access to server for my squid users .
View 1 Replies View Relatedhello i am trying to change my password, but when i type in the new password i get this:"The password is longer than 8 characters. On some systems, this can cause problems. You can truncate the password to 8 characters, or leave it as it is."my question is what kind of problem could i get and how can i change so i have to log in every time i start the computer?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using centos 5.3 and running a postfix mail server. Most of client have one common demand that they want to change their email password themselves. so Somebody suggest me how can i make the web interface so that client can change their email password from web.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have the following php code to print the output in the browser
1) <?php
$one=exec("pwd");
echo $one; //output : /root/docs
$two=exec("ls -l");
echo $two; //output :drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Apr 3 04:40 .
$three=exec("smbpasswd -a bob");
echo $three; //output : prints some garbage values ..
?>
but when i execute the above code , $three is not working ... I am in a situation to change a password for samba users from php code.
I would like to use a wireless network, I type in the correct password but suddenly a new window pops up saying: 'an application wants to access to the keyring 'Vorgabe', but its is locked password:'
But I don't know what password it's talking about
I went to Password and Encryption keys, there are two folders
'password: vorgabe'
'Password: login'
I have recently install UBUNTU 10.10 and I have found after leaving the computer unused for sometime it locks itself. When I try to unlock by typing password, nothing prints on Password box, I also tried swtich user nothing works. The only option left is to shutdown.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi need to knw is the a way to configure the ubuntu desktop to prompt for a password when relogin after the screen is locked?
it asks for a username and password a at the login prompt if i relogin after logging out out but when i lock the scree by pressing ctrl +alt + l and try to relogin it will not ask for a password , it just let me log in automatically to the pc , i think this is a security issue cos anyone else can login to my pc without prowiding credentials
I have not got a chance to play with NIS enough except basic RHCE stuff. I have some CENTOS 5.5 boxes on which I have set up NIS+AutoFS All is working pretty well except NIS users can not change password at NIS clients. I am getting this error.
Quote:
[vicky@box2 ~]$ passwd
Changing password for user vicky.
Changing password for vicky
(current) UNIX password:
New UNIX password:
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Some how I seem to be locked out of my desktop computer. My password isn't working. For some reason all of a sudden it seems to have stopped working. I tried to reboot and now I'm locked out, I can't login. And I'm the only sudo user. How can I fix it or even reset my password
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have configured LDAP server on RHEL 5.2 Linux.
Client is unable to change its password from client linux box.
I think there is PAM configuration problem in /etc/pam.d/system-auth file.
What will be the exact entries in this file.