Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 16 Sep 2005 06:37:32 +0100
From:      Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com>
To:        Chris Petrovitch <cpetrovi@purdue.edu>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mail question
Message-ID:  <1126849052.4380.4.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4329FD92.9030102@purdue.edu>
References:  <38ae654e0509151303500da69d@mail.gmail.com> <4329FD92.9030102@purdue.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:02, Chris Petrovitch wrote:
> Alexander Bogdanov wrote:
> 
> >Hello.
> >I'm student from Latvia. I'd like to ask you a question about Postfix
> >mail system under FreeBSD.
> >I have such problem: target is to allow user to change his mail
> >account's password by himself. For example, I set password for his
> >account, and maybe, user doesn't want me to know this password, so
> >he'd like to change it!
> >The question is: HOW? 
> >
> >I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
> >  
> >
> 
> I'm in the same situation....  I used /etc/passwd for people with shell 
> accounts, and /usr/local/etc/userdb (courier-imap) for virtual accounts..
> 
> any insight on this would be great!

Chris,

I can't help directly, but couier-imap does have an addon courier-passd
which allows remote changing of passwords. There is an example on the
qmailrocks site:

http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/imap.htm

Rob




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1126849052.4380.4.camel>