The web-based user interface password change page (see Chapter 5) can also be used by managers to change a user's password. This is accomplished by specifying for authentication the username and password of either the pmdf account, or the system account (root on Unix, SYSTEM on OpenVMS, or Administrator on Windows).

Note that if you are modifying the password on behalf of a user, and the username and password are stored in multiple locations (for example, in the PMDF password database as well as in a system account), and there is a failure while changing the password, that the passwords could be left in an inconsistent state (i.e. some locations have the old password and some have the new password). The way to fix this is to keep attempting to change the password until it succeeds.