[Samba] Password syncing

[Doug Curtis]

Ok, after I read the man page more carefully on smb.conf, I now know that I 
can't pass the old password plaintext to the server.  So I guess %o only 
works when using non encrypted passwords?

How about disabling the check for current password when root is resetting?

Doug

At 03:05 PM 5/9/2003 +0200, kenneth.westelinck at pandora.be wrote:
>After some googling:
>http://www.faqchest.com/linux/samba-l/smb-98/smb-9810/smb98101609_21391.html
>passwd program = /opt/samba/1.9.18p8/bin/smbpasswd
>passwd chat = *old*password* %o\n *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n 
>*changed*
>So it's indeed %o
>
>------------------------
>  Doug Curtis <doug.curtis at world-mail.org> wrote:
>------------------------
>The problem is my passwd (with Kerberos)  asks for the current password
> >before entering the new one, even when run as root.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Doug
> >
> >At 02:11 PM 5/9/2003 +0200, kenneth.westelinck at pandora.be wrote:
> >> >From my smb.conf:
> >>passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> >>passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
> >>*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
> >>
> >>
> >>------------------------
> >>  Doug Curtis  wrote:
> >>------------------------
> >>Ok, this has probably been asked 1000 times before but what is the variable
> >> >to put in the password chat to send the old (or current) password?  I
> >> >thought it was %o but that just seems to pass "%o" to the passwd command
> >> >instead of the actual password.
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >
> >> >Doug
> >> >
> >> >At 09:17 AM 5/8/2003 +0200, NSC - NetworkServiceCenter wrote:
> >> >>hi doug,
> >> >>
> >> >> > I also have successfully configured Samba to change the samba 
> password
> >> >> > from  the windows client (using the change password feature in
> >> >> > Ctrl-Alt-Del).  The only way I could get the password change from the
> >> >> > client to work was to set "unix password sync = no" but I would like
> >> >> > the  functionality of this, so that when a user changes their samba
> >> >> > password  from the client, it changes both of the passwords.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
> >> >>
> >> >>maybe your passwordchat crashes! -> try to write a little 
> shellscript that
> >> >>asks you for the password and writes this in a file. use this script as
> >> >>passwordprogramm and turn on sync. if passwordchange works now and 
> in your
> >> >>file is the new pwd, you know definitively that the string you 
> defined at
> >> >>passwordchat is not the same as the expected one of your 
> passwordprogramm.
> >> >>
> >> >>suggestion 1:
> >> >>try to get your chat and pwdprogramm work together - look out: each
> >> >>character and also carriage return must be set
> >> >>
> >> >>suggestion 2:
> >> >>if your shellscript works use it ;-)
> >> >>let your script call the passwordprogramm!!!
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>greetings
> >> >>thomas reisenbichler
> >> >
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