topic Re: Built in Change Password in 3.4 in Alfresco Archive

Built in Change Password in 3.4

jriker1 — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:01:39 GMT

Was wondering if the Change Password option in 3.4 when you click on your name pulldown is for internally authenticated users or AD based users or both? I'm going to dig deeper to find out more however thought I would ask. I know when as an AD user I use it I get a nasty java error. Below is the c

Re: Built in Change Password in 3.4

mrogers — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:36:09 GMT

You can only change the authentication details managed by Alfresco. If the authentication details are held in another system, such as LDAP or AD then you will need to change the password there, and not from Alfresco.

Re: Built in Change Password in 3.4

jriker1 — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:15:23 GMT

Thanks, that's what I figured, out it goes until I have time to code in to update someone's password against the AD.

JR

Re: Built in Change Password in 3.4

mikeh — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:33:04 GMT

condition="!context.externalAuthentication"‍

should be preventing the Change Password menu item from even appearing if you're using external authentication.

Please raise a JIRA, as this seems to be the case.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Built in Change Password in 3.4

jriker1 — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 16:47:15 GMT

Raised a JIRA however also noticed it is referenced for logout also. Wouldn't a user who uses AD to login still be provided the option to logout? With AD you still enter your credentials to login. I could see skipping logout if you were using Windows auth to auto login. Just made me curious on the thought process behind context.externalAuthentication.

JR

Re: Built in Change Password in 3.4

jriker1 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:00:06 GMT

Here is the Jira link in case anyone wants to vote on it:

http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-5256

Thanks

JR