topic Re: Changing user passwords.... in Alfresco Archive

Changing user passwords....

furtado — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:17:42 GMT

I have setup users on the system as contributors and editors. When those users login, they do not have any options available to change their passwords. How can it be done from the web client without logging in as admin….

Re: Changing user passwords....

gavinc — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:43:10 GMT

Unfortunately at the moment you can't.

There is a bug raised for this: http://www.alfresco.org/jira/browse/AWC-257

Re: Changing user passwords....

furtado — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:45:29 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply!

Re: Changing user passwords....

miranda — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:58:36 GMT

I really hope that this makes it into the next release… I was very surprised that it was not there, and came to the forums to find out if there was something obvious I was missing!

Re: Changing user passwords....

alarocca — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:04:55 GMT

Anyway, you can create it by yourself.

What you need is a jsp page with a form for input the current and new passwords. Then use API (webservice) to change the user password:

try {
AuthenticationUtils.startSession(username, oldPassword);
         AdministrationServiceSoapBindingStub admininistartionService = WebServiceFactory.getAdministrationService();
         admininistartionService.changePassword(username, oldPassword, newPassword);
         msg = "Password successfully updated.";
      } catch (Exception e) {
         msg = "Unable to update password - unknown username/password.";
         e.printStackTrace();
      } finally {
         AuthenticationUtils.endSession();
      }

Greetings,
Alessandro

Re: Changing user passwords....

mattclay — Tue, 09 May 2006 16:31:18 GMT

Unfortunately at the moment you can't.

There is a bug raised for this: http://www.alfresco.org/jira/browse/AWC-257

It looks like this bug is set to be fixed in release 1.3? Do you if that is the case, and when that release might occur?

Thanks.

Re: Changing user passwords....

nullman — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:54:50 GMT

This does not seem to be fixed in 1.3.0 Community. It is currently listed to be fixed in 1.3.1.

Re: Changing user passwords....

kevinr — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:40:38 GMT

That is correct, there will be a 1.3.1 release containg this and a few other minor additions to the client/server functionality.

Thanks,

Kevin