ejabberd - Comments for "How I can change the password of a user? from command line"

mod_admin_extra is included

mremond — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:41:22 +0000

mod_admin_extra is included latest ejabberd. Please use at least ejabberd 15.05.

You can not with

kanzer — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 06:01:33 +0000

You can not with set-password

ejabberdctl set-password user mydomain.com mypasslucky
Error: command "set-password" not known.
# ejabberdctl status
The node 'ejabberd@myhost' is started with status: started
ejabberd 2.1.12 is running in that node

Then i am install mod_admin_extra

ejabberdctl change_password user mydomain.com mypassstrong

mod_admin_extra is now in

mremond — Wed, 06 May 2015 15:49:49 +0000

mod_admin_extra is now in main ejabberd repository and was included in ejabberd 15.04 release.

This is what confused me --

drdread — Wed, 06 May 2015 15:29:15 +0000

This is what confused me -- mod_admin_extra is not in the contrib tree any more.

It is in mod_admin_extra. It

mremond — Wed, 06 May 2015 14:36:33 +0000

It is in mod_admin_extra. It is to be a contrib and is a default module in ejabberd 15.04.
In that version it seems to be called change_password

I am running ejabber

drdread — Mon, 04 May 2015 16:48:06 +0000

I am running ejabber community v 14.07, which does not seem to have the set-password feature. When was this added?

You should look into

mremond — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 08:28:30 +0000

You should look into set-password:

       set-password user server password
              Set password for user user@server to password.