Changing user passwords....

[furtado]

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….

[gavinc]

Unfortunately at the moment you can't.

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

[furtado]

Thanks for the quick reply!

[miranda]

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!

[alarocca]

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

[mattclay]

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.

[nullman]

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

[kevinr]

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