[Samba] smbclient says NT_STATUS_PASSWORD_MUST_CHANGE - how to change password?

[John H Terpstra]

On 22 Nov 2002, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 12:13, John H Terpstra wrote:
> > On 22 Nov 2002, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:
> >
> > > After a thorough google and marc search i'm shocked to find
> > > this problem unmentioned...
> > >
> > > How does one go about changing the windows password from a unix machine
> > > with no physical access to the windows machine sharing things?
> >
> > SWAT provides the password change facility you are looking for.
> huh - swat?
> i think swat is for configuring smb.conf, etc from a web broswer.
> You can change the unix and samba passwords from swat but i don't know
> of any way to change a remote windows password with swat (unless winbind
> is in play)

Check the lower password change boxes in the SWAT password page. IT is
specifically to allow user passwords on remote machines to be changed.

- John T.

>
> > If you
> > prefer a command line tool, smbpasswd has the same functionality - check
> > the -U and -r options. The smbpasswd man page documents the password
> > change options.
> this is what i'm looking for - i expected the remote password changing
> tools to part of smbclient but i guess it is just as logical for it to
> be a part of smbpasswd.
>
> smbpasswd -r may work for me...
>
> thanks
>
> brad
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org