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UCS 2.4 - Univention

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16.3 How does a user change his password?<br />

16.3 How does a user change his password?<br />

There are a number of ways for users to change their password. The new password must always comply<br />

with the security policy. If this is not the case, this may result in different error messages depending on<br />

the mechanism used. If you have problems changing your password, you should firstly check whether the<br />

security requirements are complied with.<br />

16.3.1 On a Linux workstation<br />

If the user is logged on to a Linux workstation, he can open the program with which he can change his<br />

password via K menu ➞ Control Center ➞ Security & Privacy ➞ Password & User Account ➞ Change<br />

Password. The program requests the old password first and then the new password. If the new password<br />

is longer than eight characters a warning is given, which can be confirmed by clicking on the [Use As Is]<br />

button.<br />

If the password does not comply with the security requirements, the message Your password has not<br />

been changed appears together with an explanation of why the change failed.<br />

The user can also change his password using kpasswd on the command line. More detailed error mes-<br />

sages are given there. (see Chapter 16.5).<br />

16.3.2 On a Windows workstation<br />

If the user is logged on to a Windows workstation he can open the dialogue for changing his password<br />

with ”Ctrl + Alt + Del”.<br />

16.3.3 When logging on<br />

If a user’s password is no longer valid and the user tries to log on to the domain, a window opens automat-<br />

ically asking him to change his password. For setting the password expiry interval see Chapter 4.5.11.<br />

16.3.4 Via <strong>Univention</strong> Directory Manager<br />

The ucsUCRVldap/acl/user/password/change must be set to yes on the DC master for the user to be able<br />

to change his password via <strong>Univention</strong> Directory Manager.<br />

After logging on to <strong>Univention</strong> Directory Manager, the dialogue for changing a user password can be<br />

opened by choosing Password in the left screen margin. The new password must be given identically in<br />

the Password (*) and Password (retype) (*) fields.<br />

16.4 How is the password for root changed?<br />

Each <strong>UCS</strong> computer has a root user. Its password is changed locally on the computer using the passwd<br />

command.<br />

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