Need advice on how to handle external ldap authentication with Zimbra

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wodel
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Need advice on how to handle external ldap authentication with Zimbra

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Hi,

We are building a new LDAP platforme using 389 Directory Server, we need it for our applications.

We will be using it also to authenticate our Zimbra users, we already did a test and the authentication works just fine.

We used the https://github.com/Zimbra-Community/ADPassword connector (after some changes made to the code) to allow users to change their password using the Zimbra's change password window.

Now we are facing some challenges, and I am hopping that you can give me some advice on how to handle them :

Since the authentication is no longer handled by Zimbra's LDAP, forcing user to change his password and password expiration don't work any more from Zimbra's webclient.

For those of you who are using external authentication, how do you handle these cases?
What are the tools, if any, are you using to force a user to change his password?
How to you handle password expiration?

Thanks in advance.

Regards.
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