From 8a2e6e7873cb10effe81cbc8c0bbc887beee9100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Craig <mark.craig@forgerock.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:28:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Tip on password reset vs. password change
---
opendj3/src/main/docbkx/admin-guide/chap-ldap-operations.xml | 12 ++++++++++--
1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/opendj3/src/main/docbkx/admin-guide/chap-ldap-operations.xml b/opendj3/src/main/docbkx/admin-guide/chap-ldap-operations.xml
index eb2662a..10b80f3 100644
--- a/opendj3/src/main/docbkx/admin-guide/chap-ldap-operations.xml
+++ b/opendj3/src/main/docbkx/admin-guide/chap-ldap-operations.xml
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@
command-line tools for performing LDAP operations. This chapter demonstrates
how to use the command line tools to script LDAP operations.</para>
- <!-- TODO: search, compare, add, modify, modifyDN, delete, but also authrate,
- searchrate, modrate, and ldappasswordmodify, who am I?, cancel -->
+ <!-- TODO: who am I?, cancel -->
<section xml:id="search-ldap">
<title>Searching the Directory</title>
@@ -906,6 +905,15 @@
--newPassword ChangeMe
The LDAP password modify operation was successful</screen>
+ <tip>
+ <para>Whenever one user changes another user's password, OpenDJ considers
+ it a password reset. That often means the user has to change her password
+ again after the reset.</para>
+ <para>If you want your application to change a user's password, rather
+ than reset a user's password, have your application request the password
+ change as the user whose password is changing.</para>
+ </tip>
+
<para>You could also accomplish password reset with the following command,
but <command>set-password-is-reset</command> is a hidden option, supported
only for testing.</para>
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