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by gtluzzi

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Help,
I am a newbie to Linux. We have installed and setup sendmail But none of our end users can change their e-mail passwords

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by forhire

Users generally have to login to the system using an interactive login, then type passwd to change their password. Note that the default behavior for sendmail is to not ask for a password. Do you perhaps mean POP or IMAP? In that case, you may be able to configure your POP or IMAP server to allow password changes.

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by techpro

AFAIK, pop does not support changing your password

you can however, install something like telnetd (telnet daemon) and write a small script that'd you'd put as their shell (in /etc/passwd, the last field is the shell) to allow them to change their password

something along the lines of (very simplistic exemple, but it could be much more complex)

#!/bin/bash
echo welcome to company X
echo this utility lets you change your POP and SMTP password, please select it carefully
passwd

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