Topic: user password change

[rlastinger]

So I have an external openldap environment with a self service user creation/deletion and password change tool that I wrote.  I also have an SME 8 server that I just stood up that looks like it uses openldap for authentication as well.

Is it possible for my to manage the user creation and password changes from my self service portal on the other openldap server?  How would I go about that?

It may not give me centralized authentication, but would at least give my users the appearance of it if I could manage both from my self service portal.

[janet]

rlastinger

See this thread, maybe it helps you
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,50503.msg254244.html#msg254244
& particularly this post & another one by Charlie, as I think they are applicable to your request
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,50503.msg254307.html#msg254307

[CharlieBrady]

So I have an external openldap environment with a self service user creation/deletion and password change tool that I wrote.  I also have an SME 8 server that I just stood up that looks like it uses openldap for authentication as well.

Simple answer - it doesn't.

[rlastinger]

It doesn't use openldap or my self service portal will not work?

[Stefano]

SME doesn't use (only) ldap for auth, i.e. you have real user (see /etc/passwd and /etc/shadows)

in any case SME can't use external db to authenticate users

[rlastinger]

gotcha.  so then if i wanted to have my program create and/or change user profile information from my other system, then it would need to make an ldap update as well as run user add.  What else would need to be done to make it successful?  I'm currently writing in Golang.  Should I switch to PHP for this?