Alfresco, CAS, ApacheDS LDAP and passwords

[jrpolan]

Hello,
I have successfully configured Alfresco 2.0 with CAS and ApacheDS for authentication. once configured, I can log into another separate intranet portal, then, once clicking on link to the Alfresco implementation, am successfully logged into alfresco via CAS.
however, once inside alfresco, if i attempt to change the password via alfresco that is configured with ApacheDS LDAP, i cannot change my password and receive and error.
Does Alrfesco 2.0 support changing the password if configured with LDAP? if not, how do i solve this?

Thanks in advance,
Jason

[andy]

Hi

If you are using LDAP this is currently only for authentication and extracting user information. We assume there is some other route for user  and password management and that your admin/security support would not like you doing this via alfresco.

It is possible to set passwords etc. You would have to write your own authentication DAO to do this at the moment. Updating the password may be OK, creating users etc would require the LDAP access to have more rights. The password update for the user would have enough information to bind and set the password; for the admin user it would not.

I will add user password change support to the list - as it seems reasonable after thinking about it again.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Andy