Unix Password File and smbpasswd file synchronisation?

Christian Barth barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Mon Jan 21 01:08:11 GMT 2002


> Hi
>     Is there any way of keeping my unix password file and my smbpasswd file
> in synchronisation? What i want to happen is when a user changes their
> password under linux (passwd command) it changes their samba password as
> well.
Set up samba with "unix password sync = yes" in smb.conf. Then rename 
the unix-passwd command and use this in the passwd chacht an link 
smbpasswd to passwd.

Christian

> When a user changes their password using samba it changes their
> password in the unix password file as well, therefore the two should keep
> synhronised. Is there any way of doing this? I am running redhat 7.2.
> 
> Thankyou
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
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