Bug 55002

Summary:	SetPassword() does not (and cannot?) work with remote users
Product:	accountsservice	Reporter:	Stef Walter <stefw>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	bugzilla, jhrozek, rstrode
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Stef Walter 2012-09-17 09:11:18 UTC

It seems that due to the use of a crypted password SetPassword() in the AccountsService DBus API cannot be made to work with remote users.

In addition the implementation of SetPassword() in accounts-daemon uses usermod to change the password. It should instead go through the PAM stack to change the password. 

In addition to working with non-local user accounts, this will make it respect administrators preferences for password changing.

This is related to bug #55000

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2012-09-17 16:09:01 UTC

see bug 51833 comment 1

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-07 09:30:31 UTC

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