Disallow change password for a certain SWA-user

[vovaodei]

Hi!

Following situation: i created a kinda "demo"-account, so any of my user
can login and see how scalix works etc.

But i want to permit them to change the password of this demoaccount from swa -
how can i do it?


Thanks!

[florian]

wow, not a simple one.

we currently don't provide per-user password change controls.

However, as we use PAM for authentication, you might want to setup your /var/opt/scalix/sys/pam.d/ual.remote PAM configuration file in such a way that the "password" section uses the Linux standard "pam_listfile" module and denies the password change request, when the listed user tries to do it.

Hope this helps,
Florian.

[vovaodei]

Thanks!

It worked!

[florian]

Would you be willing to document this in detail for the benefit of the community? at best, please add it to the playground part of the scalix wiki (www.scalix.com/wiki) and i'll link it in as a contributed how-to thereafter.

Thanks!

-- f.

[vovaodei]

sure

[spoiledmcse]

I don't suppose you could paste the change to /var/opt/scalix/sys/pam.d in here, I've got the exact same requirement from a client to deny certain users permission to change passwords.

Thanks in advance!