NAME

       ldapsetpasswd - modifies a POSIX user account's password in LDAP.

SYNOPSIS

       ldapsetpasswd <username|uid> [encodedpassword]

OPTIONS

       <username | uid>
              The name or uid of the user whose password has to be modified.

       [encoded password]
              If  specified  this  way,  the  password  will  be copied verbatim into the LDAP directory. If not
              specified, you will be prompted for a password  that  will  be  changed  using  the  ldappasswd(1)
              command.

SEE ALSO

       ldapfinger(1), ldapid(1), ldapgid(1), ldapscripts(5).

AVAILABILITY

       The ldapscripts are provided under the GNU General Public License v2 (see COPYING for more details).  The
       latest version of the ldapscripts is available on : http://contribs.martymac.org

LIMITATIONS

       When used interactively, passwords generated with this command  are  propagated  with  the  ldappasswd(1)
       command.  Thus, the resulting format depends on the 'password-hash' option of your server's slapd.conf(5)
       file.

       You can always force an encoded password (using the hash format of your choice) by specifying it  on  the
       command line.

BUGS

       No bug known.

                                                November 1, 2006                                ldapsetpasswd(1)