Re: [webmin-l] Usermin : Change Password Home Dir Required?

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Hi Rob,
This may be a bug that has crept into the 1.160 release of Usermin..
Are you using the Change Passwords module to do the password change,
or some other module?

 - Jamie

On 28/Sep/2005 21:00 Rob Thomas wrote ..
> Hi,
> Been using Usermin for a few years now to allow users to change their
> password on our Linux-Samba domain and its been working perfectly.
> However I've just noticed that when using the latest version 1.160
> that we are getting a failed message ....
> Failed to change {domain name} domain password : Failed to create
> /home/{userid}/.usermin : No such file or directory
> The password is changed ok. I've tracked this down to the fact that
> our users don't have home directories. It looks as though Usermin
> wants to create a .usermin/mailbox in their home directory. Is this
> behaviour by design and can we disable it in some way? I'm also not
> sure which version of Usermin this started happening as someone else
> has been managing the box and the upgrades and didn't notice it.
> If this can't be configured then I guess my option is create the users
> home directories.
> Cheers
> Rob
> 
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