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Posted to dev@vcl.apache.org by Brian Bouterse <bm...@ncsu.edu> on 2009/03/30 15:28:08 UTC

Changing the password for a user

I've created a few username@Local users, and this user information is  
stored in the VCL database.  I've assigned these usernames random  
passwords so that I can send them to their owners.  I'd like their  
owners to be able to change this password form the web interface.  Is  
this possible?

Best,
Brian


Brian Bouterse
Secure Open Systems Initiative
919.698.8796





Re: Changing the password for a user

Posted by Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>.
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I just submitted code to do this to resolve VCL-124.

Josh

On Monday March 30, 2009, Josh Thompson wrote:
> Brian,
>
> No, there is currently no way for users to change their passwords.  The
> localauth system was basically a quick hack to allow some sort of internal
> account to be used.  There is a pretty well designed web account management
> system we will be incorporating into VCL in the future, but we haven't set
> a time to focus on that yet.
>
> I'll see if I can come up with a quick way to add in the ability to change
> the password for users with the Local affiliation on the User Preferences
> page.
>
> Josh
>
> On Monday March 30, 2009, Brian Bouterse wrote:
> > I've created a few username@Local users, and this user information is
> > stored in the VCL database.  I've assigned these usernames random
> > passwords so that I can send them to their owners.  I'd like their
> > owners to be able to change this password form the web interface.  Is
> > this possible?
> >
> > Best,
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > Brian Bouterse
> > Secure Open Systems Initiative
> > 919.698.8796

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Josh Thompson
Systems Programmer
Virtual Computing Lab (VCL)
North Carolina State University

Josh_Thompson@ncsu.edu
919-515-5323

my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu
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Re: Changing the password for a user

Posted by Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>.
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Brian,

No, there is currently no way for users to change their passwords.  The 
localauth system was basically a quick hack to allow some sort of internal 
account to be used.  There is a pretty well designed web account management 
system we will be incorporating into VCL in the future, but we haven't set a 
time to focus on that yet.

I'll see if I can come up with a quick way to add in the ability to change the 
password for users with the Local affiliation on the User Preferences page.

Josh

On Monday March 30, 2009, Brian Bouterse wrote:
> I've created a few username@Local users, and this user information is
> stored in the VCL database.  I've assigned these usernames random
> passwords so that I can send them to their owners.  I'd like their
> owners to be able to change this password form the web interface.  Is
> this possible?
>
> Best,
> Brian
>
>
> Brian Bouterse
> Secure Open Systems Initiative
> 919.698.8796

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Josh Thompson
Systems Programmer
Virtual Computing Lab (VCL)
North Carolina State University

Josh_Thompson@ncsu.edu
919-515-5323

my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu
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