[Samba] RE: Solaris/Winbind Problems

[David Shapiro]

Yes, it kind of sucks that it does not work correctly.   I did the following
kluge for now:

I did the following:

In /usr/sbin, I created a script called passwd:

#!/bin/ksh
trap ""  2 3
sudo mv /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf.winbind
sudo mv /etc/nsswitch.conf.nowinbind /etc/nsswitch.conf
/usr/bin/passwd $1
sudo mv /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf.nowinbind
sudo mv /etc/nsswitch.conf.winbind /etc/nsswitch.conf
trap  2 3

I created in /etc/:

nsswitch.conf.winbind		(has the winbind options)
nsswitch.conf.nowinbind		(does not have the winbind options)

I installed sudo, and added the following in its configuration file:

Cmnd_Alias SAMBAPASSWD = /usr/bin/mv /etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf.winbind, \
                         /usr/bin/mv /etc/nsswitch.conf.nowinbind
/etc/nsswitch.conf, \
                         /usr/bin/mv /etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf.nowinbind, \
                         /usr/bin/mv /etc/nsswitch.conf.winbind
/etc/nsswitch.conf
ALL     SERVERS = NOPASSWD: SAMBAPASSWD

This allows users to change their passwords.  





-----Original Message-----
From: eric.l.helvey at mail.sprint.com
[mailto:eric.l.helvey at mail.sprint.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:31 AM
To: david.edward.shapiro at btitele.com
Subject: Solaris/Winbind Problems


I noticed a couple of your newsgroups posts from back in March stating
that you were having some issues getting the Solaris passwd command to
work when you had winbind enabled.  Were you able to solve this problem?
I've been unabled to solve it.  I called Sun for support and once they
heard the magic word "Samba" they bailed and said "Not our problem."

Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated.

Eric L. Helvey
ISS, Premise Support
913-534-7007