[SSSD] Unable to change ldap user passwords as the root user

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Tue Oct 23 03:57:10 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 16:29 -0500, David Jablonski wrote:
> I am unable to change a ldap user account's password as the root user.
> Unfortunately after a lot of google searching I haven't had any luck.
> This is happening on Centos 5.8/6.3, Fedora 16/17 machines.  Thank you
> for any help.
> 
> Changing password for user xxx
> Password reset by root is not supported.
> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

As the message says this is not supported, for the simple reason that
the 'root' user of a machine has no privileges on the LDAP server hosted
on a completely different machine.

Simo.

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