How to Change a User Password in LDAP

LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It is written for email applications to look up information from a server. You can configure LDAP to look up information such as SSL certificates, printers and other services on a network quickly with an LDAP user name and password. This auto-configuration is ideal for applications that you wish to sync with a server to obtain the most recent connection configurations upon reboot. You can change the password to an LDAP user account by using the "ldappasswd" command.

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  Open a new terminal window on your preferred Linux or UNIX distribution.

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  Type "ldappasswd -h <server> -A <username>" without quotes. Change <server> to the host name or IP address of the LDAP server and <username> to the name of the user whose password you would like to change.

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  Enter the current password when prompted.

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  Enter the new password twice when prompted.