Samba PDC as a password server

[Jean-Francois Micouleau]

On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> Indeed. You would set up the smbd to sync unix passwords
> and call a local program that set's a users password as
> root, then does a make in the yp domain directory to push
> the changed password out to the NIS slaves.
> 
> You still end up with two password files, but users in
> both have the same password.
> 

And how do you change the samba encrypted password from a NIS client
workstation ? 

yppasswd send the password already encrypted to the yppasswdd daemon.


	Jean Francois

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