[Mediawiki-l] Removing User Preference to Change Password

I checked the archives of this list (thanks, Gmane http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki), without success.

We are using our own AuthPlugin to authenticate via LDAP against Active Directory, with a "fall-through" for accounts that are not defined in AD. We would like to present the password-change part of the User Preferences panel _only_ to those users who are _not_ authenticated against Active Directory.

We are on 1.4.7 now, with 1.5 upgrade probably not until January. Any suggestions about the cleanest way to implement this in 1.4.7 or in 1.5?

Thanks in advance.

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