Change password on Ubuntu client using LDAP Authentication

Question

I've setup a computer lab running Ubuntu 14 clients and an Ubuntu 14 server.

The clients are successfully logging in using credentials provided by Open LDAP. I used this guide to configure the clients - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LDAPClientAuthentication

I would like to enable each user to change their password at the client.

I've tried the usual ways to change password -

Through System Settings, but need to login as root user to "unlock" User panel
Through terminal - passwd. I get "Authentication information cannot be recovered"

Thanks in advance for any help.

First, the server ACLs should allow the user to modify their own password. Do they? You would probably have applied an ACL like the first one at help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/…. — muru, Aug 5 '15 at 4:09
Thanks for this reply, work has been crazy so sorry for not getting back sooner, that page has a lot of info and I'll try to work it out. Do you know if it is possible to enable this through phpLDAPadmin? — John Behan, Aug 20 '15 at 5:27

Jakuje · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-05 21:30:56Z

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In client system edit file

/etc/pam.d/common-password

and remove the word auth_key.

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