HP UX LDAP-UX Integration Software manual

User Tasks

To Change Passwords

PAM and NSS. See Figure 6-2, Changing Passwords on Master Server with ldappasswd, below. See also Figure 6-3 on page 171 for a sample passwd wrapper command.

Figure 6-2	Changing Passwords on Master Server with ldappasswd
		Master LDAP	Updates	Replica LDAP
		Directory Server		Directory Server

passwd(1) can modify master LDAP server

LDAP-UX

Clients 1-50

LDAP-UX

Clients 51-100

ldappasswd(1) can modify the master LDAP server

	See “The ldappasswd Command” on page 166 for details of this
	command.
Figure 6-3	Sample passwd Command Wrapper

#!/usr/bin/ksh

#

#You can put a default master LDAP server host name

#here. Otherwise the local host is the default.

#

#LDAP_MASTER="masterHostName"

if [[ "$1" != "" ]] then LDAP_MASTER="$1"

fi

if [[ "$LDAP_MASTER" = "" ]] then

eval "$(sed -e "1,/Service: NSS/d" /etc/opt/ldapux/ldapux_client.conf \ grep "^LDAP_HOSTPORT")"

LDAP_MASTER="$(echo $LDAP_HOSTPORT cut -d" " -f 1)"

fi

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