HP UX LDAP-UX Integration Software manual To Change Passwords

User Tasks

To Change Passwords

	directory on sys001. However, the passwd(1) command on clients 51-100
	will fail because the replica server on sys002 cannot be modified. See the
	diagram below.
Figure 6-1	Cannot Change Passwords on Replica Servers

Master LDAP

Directory Server

passwd(1) can modify master LDAP server

LDAP-UX

Clients 1-50

Updates Replica LDAP

Directory Server

passwd(1) can not modify replica LDAP server

LDAP-UX

Clients 51-100

One way to allow clients 51-100 to change their passwords is to create a new passwd(1) command wrapper on these clients that calls ldappasswd(1), which modifies the master directory. When the replica server is updated depends on how you have configured the replication. All other LDAP requests continue to go to the replica server through

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