Specifications

To open a directory domain, click the small globe icon above the list of users and
choose from the pop-up menu.
If the user’s password type is Open Directory, you must authenticate as an
administrator whose password type is Open Directory.
3 Select the account whose password needs to be changed.
4 Enter a password in the Basic pane, then click Save.
5 Tell the user the new password so he or she can log in.
After the user logs in to Mac OS X with the new password, the user can change the
password by clicking Accounts in System Preferences.
If you change the password of an account whose password type is Open Directory
and the account resides in the LDAP directory of an Open Directory replica or master,
the change becomes synchronized with the master and its replicas. Mac OS X Server
synchronizes changes to Open Directory passwords among a master and its replicas.
Resetting the Passwords of Multiple Users
You can use Workgroup Manager to simultaneously select multiple user accounts and
change them to have the same password type and the same temporary password.
To change the password type and password of multiple user accounts:
1 Open Workgroup Manager, click the Accounts button, and then click the User button.
2 Open the directory domain that contains the user account whose password types and
passwords you want to reset and authenticate as an administrator of the domain.
To open a directory domain, click the small globe icon above the list of users and
choose from the pop-up menu.
If you want to set the password type to be Open Directory, you must authenticate as
an administrator whose password type is Open Directory.
3 Command–click or Shift–click user accounts to select accounts whose password type
must be changed.
4 Enter a password in the Basic pane, then set the User Password Type option in the
Advanced pane.
5 Click Save.
6 Tell the users the temporary password so they can log in.
After logging in with the temporary password, users can change the password by
clicking Accounts in System Preferences.
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