#395 Usermin Change Password PAM on FreeBSD

[Anonymous]

When trying to change passwd on usermin i'm getting on
my freebsd 4.5-stable box the following error:

usermin: Failed to change password : PAM error :
Permission denied

console: l/usermin-0.6/changepass/changepass.cgi: no
modules loaded for `passwd' service
or do i have to enter anything in /etc/pam.conf ?

(i installed perl Authen::PAM)

Thanx & Regards,
Thomas

[Jamie Cameron]

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Yeah, that is a known problem - but unfortunately one
that I don't have a solution for. I'm pretty sure that
that password changing on FreeBSD does not use PAM at all,
so this may never work :(

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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hmmm and there is no possibility to change passwd without
pam like in webmin ? just take the same module from webmin
to usermin ?

[Jamie Cameron]

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Not really, because usermin uses PAM for authentication
so changing the password file directly might not work
if PAM is setup to authenticate against some other source,
like LDAP or an NIS server.