passwd sync still

[Bob Dusek]

I'm not sure, but it could have something to do with your "passwd chat"
directive.  Ours looks like this:

passwd chat = *ew\spassword* %n\n *enter* %n\n *assword\schanged*

Since our samba server runs with root privelege, it doesn't ask us for
the old password when we run the passwd program.  So, the "old*password"
stuff would break it on our server.

Bob

Marcel Kunath wrote:
> 
> I still can't get passwd sync to work. I log in a normal user in win98 and try
> 'change windows password' which it does but it doesn't change the unix passwd.
> 
> There isn't even any entries in the logs that a passwd change was called....and
> the /etc/smbpasswd file was not changed either.
> 
> smb.conf:
> 
> [global]
>         {cut}
>         guest account = nobody
>         security = user
>         encrypt passwords = yes
>         smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
>         {cut}
>         unix password sync = yes
>         passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>         passwd chat = *old*password* %o\n *new*password* %n\n \
>                 *new*password* %n\n *changed*
>         username map = /etc/smb.usermap
>         browseable = no
>         config file = /etc/smb.conf.%U
> 
> smb.conf.nobody:
> 
> [global]
>         {cut}
>         guest account = nobody
>         security = user
>         encrypt passwords = yes
>         smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
>         {cut}
>         ;unix password sync = yes
>         passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>         passwd chat = *old*password* %o\n *new*password* %n\n \
>                 *new*password* %n\n *changed*
>         username map = /etc/smb.usermap
>         browseable = no
>         ;config file = /etc/smb.conf.%U
> 
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