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

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

Thanks ...
Could you tell me what the exact error message that you are seeing is? I
want to track down where it is coming from, so the wording is
important..

 - Jamie

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 22:37, Rob Thomas wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
> Yes I'm using the standard Change Passwords module in 1.160. I can
> also confirm that it happens in 1.150 too but as my colleague didn't
> tell me users were getting this failure message it could also be
> happening in previous releases.
> 
> Cheers for your help on this and the effort you put into Webmin and
> Usermin, they are really great tools.
> 
> Rob
> 
> On 9/28/05, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:
> > 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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