hi,


Ihave a active directory on a win2003 standard and a mail server on slackware with qmail/vpopmail.....I want to force users to change password for mail account every month......if is any solution to syncronize passwords from AD to vpopmail(I know about SFU from Microsoft but I want to syncronize to vpasswd not to passwd(system users)......users from Ad are the same with names of mail accounts....only passwords must be changed every time I force to change on AD


thanks

Hi,

I am not sure if AD support this, but if you can run a script on Linux once a user change the Password in AD, than you can change user password easily.

I am not aware of the setup you have nor i hae experince on qmail and AD , but as programmer, I am sure that when you change AD password you can have some sort of event capturing, you need to trigger a script that change the Virtual password.

Also, I am interesting to know how you set those thing, as I am also looking for same solution for my company
If you can help me setting up that, thanks

search on microsoft site for SFU(i can`t post link because I don`t have more posts on this forum )......now I`m testing with virtual machines to see how can make this syncro

when I will have more details I will tell you

Hi,

thanks for tell me that even ... Hope you get those permission on forum soon..

EDIT:
I did the search and found that SFU is for Service for UNIX (If i am right) can you help me setting it up

SFU 3.5 it`s a archive....about 220MB...in that archieve you have a setup.exe...after you install that in administrative tools you will have "Service for Unix Administration"......you can syncronize password but first you must have NIS on Linux server and Pam ........but slackware doesn`t have pam from default because before slackware have a big bug with pamm authentification


still working to see how to configure NIS