PAM: change user's passwords in the Freeradius server

Roberto Carna robertocarna36 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 19:49:38 CEST 2014


In this case, what is the reason of the existence of the
/etc/pam.d/passwd file ???

Are you sure it's impossible ???

Thanks again.

2014-10-16 14:42 GMT-03:00 Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>:
> 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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