[Samba] passwd chat
Mike Partyka
mike.partyka at stonepath.com
Thu Jan 20 17:31:06 GMT 2005
Hello,
I have seen several examples of smb.conf's that use the "passwd chat"
parameter. There isn't much explanation in the Samba documentation that I
can see for this parameter, can someone explain a bit about what adding the
parameter to your [global] section does for you?
The examples usually look like this:
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password*
%n\n*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
But I wonder what does it allow you to do, that is, how will this feature be
used by the users on the box? Does it allow windows clients to get a dialog
box of some sort that will let them change their passwd in the smbpasswd
file? Or does it update their password in the /etc/passwd file? Or both?
Thanks,
Mike Partyka
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Systems Administrator
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