Usermin Fails to Change User Details for LDAP Users

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#401 Usermin Fails to Change User Details for LDAP Users

Milestone: 1.460

Status: closed-wont-fix

Owner: Jamie Cameron

Labels: Change User Details (9)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2011-02-23

Created: 2011-02-22

Creator: Blair Barrett

Private: No

Resulting error message:

Failed to change details : chfn: user does not exist in /etc/passwd

Discussion

Jamie Cameron - 2011-02-23

status: open --> closed-wont-fix
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Jamie Cameron - 2011-02-23

Looks like the chfn command doesn't know how to update LDAP. This isn't surprising as I don't think there is any standard API for commands like chfn to use to update user details regardless of their storage location.

So there really isn't much usermin can do here..

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