During a recent conversation on Apple’s macos-x-server mailing list, somebody mentioned the need to be able to change a user’s Open directory password via a web application. With Windows/Active Directory, this is accomplished with a custom ASP page running on an IIS server — at least, I think that’s how it works — but with Apple’s password management schema, a straightforward LDAP password change script won’t suffice.
Enter osxpass, which ties into Password Server and works like a charm. I’ve been playing with it for the last couple of days on the Xserve at work and am quite impressed. It comes with source code in the form of an Xcode project, so it can be easily customized for a variety of environments. Sweet!
Now, if only I had enough users to make it worthwhile; changing your own password over and over isn’t as rewarding as it sounds. (Sigh.)
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