Previously I used Squirrelmail with a Password Plugin that had the option to require the user to change their password at next login. Which basically works by quering a field in the mailbox table called change_password that is set to 0 or 1, and when the user logs in if change_password is set to 1 then they are taken directly to the change password screen. I find this feature very useful when setting up new accounts with generic passwords and need to force the users to change them.

If you think this feature would be useful and add it to your patch, please let me know.

Thanks again for this patch,

LedHed

your patch work for me very well, i don’t have any objection It’s true that i patch my files “by da hand” cause i have version 0.1_beta-r1 but anyway patch does my roundcube nice and shiny with this new option I know one guy who work on this project and maybe your patch will go in next release, i don’t promise but if a have sucess i contact you via mail to take credit terms for that. At last, thank you for great job!

Cheers,

Ivan

Unzip the roundcube source, cd in to that directory and apply the patch with the following command:
patch -p1 < roundcubemail-0.1beta-changepassword.patch

When it’s done you will notice a new folder in the roundcube’s root directory called ‘ext’.
There is one php file in it: change_password_function.inc. This php file contains only one function: function change_password_function ($user, $currentpass, $newpass);

Now you have to change it according to your mailserver. I don’t know exactly how this must be done for all kinds of mailservers, but I’m using postfix with a mysql database. All my users are stored in that database. I just update the password for the user in that database and it’s done.
But again: you’ll probably have to change this function to fit your mailserver.

Kind regards,
Nicolas

And first, thanks for this patch, how can i install it correctly?