Topic: Public Access to server-manager

[Gabriel Requito]

Does anybody know how do i allow everybody in the internet to view de page for changing a user password?
   Thanks

[Michael Thom]

Try SME utilities at www.dungog.net

[stephen noble]

no, this has been discussed before
there is no _easy_ answer

i'd like to add to the userpanel the same code that's in 5.5 that allows
the server manager to be accessed by https for selected a selected ip range

is this feasible

if so does anyone want it badly enough to fund it


regards
stephen noble

dungog.net/sme

[Darrell May]

IIRC, the code is already there Stephen.

Darrell

[Bill Talcott]

Is there a way to do the process described at http://www.e-smith.org/howto/remote-mgr-access-howto.html for the user-password panel?

[Gabriel Requito]

I don't know about the rest of you, but for me this is very important, because i'm doing webhosting and I have created users for the various virtual domains and now those users who connect to my server from the internet via POP3 and WebMail, can't change the default passwords that I´ve given to them.

[Ray Mitchell]

I don't know about allowing "everbody on the Internet" to change passwords, but obviously they must be a user in the sme server, so....

It takes me about 10 seconds to establish a VPN connection to a sme5.5 server, and then another 5 seconds to open a browser to http://192.XXX.XX.XX/user-password, then enter the user name old password and new password.
Pretty easy !
Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Gabriel Requito]

Sorry, but I keep saying that is not the solution. I' ve never seen an email service provider asking them users to do that for change the password. It should have that option in the webmail interface or something like that.

[Rich Lafferty]

But that *is* the solution. If you don't like the solution, that's something
else entirely -- but the way that users change their passwords on the
SME Server is by going to http://your.server/user-password/ . It continues
to work even if you don't like it.

If they're going to that URL on the external interface, then you'll need to
allow external access to the server-manager (in the remote-access panel in
5.5, or with the steps described in the remote server-manager access
HOWTO in previous versions).

If you want it to work some other way, then you will have to write something
to allow them to do it some other way. Remember that you have to keep
the Unix and Samba passwords in sync.

Cheers,
--Rich

[Bill Talcott]

Gabriel Requito wrote:
>
>    Sorry, but I keep saying that is not the solution. I' ve
> never seen an email service provider asking them users to do
> that for change the password. It should have that option in
> the webmail interface or something like that.

http://www.e-smith.org/howto/remote-mgr-access-howto.html does provide external access to the user-password page as well. It's not quite as nice as if it were integrated into the webmail interface, but it is still relatively easy. I wouldn't consider it unreasonble for an ISP to use a separate page like that.

[ChanChong]

As mentioned by Bill, there is no other way easier unless something is specially written to supplement the password-change.

However, if you are using squirrel mail as the web interface, there is a contributed function that allows one change the password using the web. But I have not tried it yet.

http://www.squirrelmail.org/contrib.php

Its on the right side.