PAM: change user's passwords in the Freeradius server

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Oct 16 19:42:33 CEST 2014


Roberto Carna wrote:
> But now I want the Debian machines' users to change their passwords
> with the "passwd" command in the MySQL database from Freeradius, but
> after editing the file /etc/pam.d/passwd as follow:
> 
> password              sufficient pam_radius_auth.so     debug
> @include common-password
> 
> the users can't change their passwords at all in the Freeradius server.

  The RADIUS protocol doesn't support password changing.

> How can I edit the /etc/pam.d/passwd file in order to let users to
> change Freeradius passwords???

  It's impossible.

  Alan DeKok.


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