Re: [Jailkit-users] allowing chroot-jailed users to change password

[Olivier Sessink]

On 05/30/2011 06:27 AM, Mike Edmister wrote:
> Hello everybody...
>
> I thought at one point I had this working (the ability to run passwd as
> a user in the jail,)
> but now I get an error message:
>
> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
> passwd: password unchanged
>
> Is there some easy solution to allowing password changes by these users,
> or was I perhaps deluded in thinking that this used to work?

because the shadow file is on the real system and not in the jail this 
is difficult. A possible solution is to store the passwords somewhere 
else, for example in ldap.

Olivier
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