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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 2/8/21 3:38 PM, Silvers, Tim wrote:
> The User Preferences documentation states there is a means to change the 
> local login password under ‘My preferences’
> that we don’t see. I looked at edit_list.conf but I don’t see an option 
> that seems to match. I thought it might be
> ‘account’ but changing it from ‘hidden’ had no effect.**
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> Tim
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Hello Tim,

how does your auth.conf looks like (with private / sensitive information 
redacted ?

Regards
          Racke

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> *From: *<address@concealed> on behalf of Undisclosed 
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> *Reply-To: *Undisclosed Recipients <address@concealed>
> *Date: *Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 5:12 AM
> *To: *"Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>, 
> "address@concealed" <address@concealed>
> *Subject: *Re: [sympa-users] [External] Re: Change local login password
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> Racke,
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> We provide SSO/LDAP for our university users and a local login option for 
> others. Sympa then saves these local logins
> (email address, password, last login date, etc.) in the database. So, they 
> use the ‘First Login?’ option to create a
> password with Sympa. A link is mailed to them and they click it to provide 
> a password for their email address. However,
> as I mentioned, I don’t see a means for a user to change it; nothing under 
> the ‘My preferences’ menu or elsewhere and
> nothing mentioned in the Sympa online documentation. So, I’d like to know 
> if I’m missing it or is the ‘Lost password?’
> option a user would choose to reset a local password?
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> Tim
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> *From: *<address@concealed> on behalf of "Stefan 
> Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>
> *Reply-To: *"Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>
> *Date: *Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 1:32 AM
> *To: *"address@concealed" <address@concealed>
> *Subject: *[External] Re: [sympa-users] Change local login password
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> On 2/3/21 8:37 PM, Silvers, Tim wrote:
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>     Hi. We are running version 6.2.60 and there doesn’t appear to be an 
> option for users logging in locally to change their
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>     passwords. There isn’t an option under ‘My preferences’ and I don’t see 
> anything in the FAQs or Documentation regarding
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>     changing passwords for local logins. Is the only alternative to select 
> ‘Lost password?’ and choose a new one?
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> Hello Tim,
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> what do you mean with "local logins"? How did your configure the web 
> authentication for your Sympa instance?
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> Regards
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>         Racke
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Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
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