dcsl changed with Tiger???

[gw1500se]

I have a ‘dscl’ command to change passwords that worked under Panther:

dscl -u guest -P guest1 /LDAPV3/127.0.0.1 -password /Users/guest guest2

This same command under Tiger gives me the error:

eDSAuthNewPasswordRequired

Can someone tell me what I need to change in the command to make it Tiger compatable? The man page seems to be the same as Panther so there is no help there. TIA.

[gw1500se]

After much messing around, I now know what the problem is but I don’t understand why it is changed in Tiger. The error is misinformation. It turns out a user cannot change their own password using ‘dscl’ unlike Panther. The -u apparently must be an administrator. This means the administrator password must be used as well. Not good from a security standpoint in my PHP script.

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