Changing password from Windows

[Sean Elble]

To enable the changing of passwords from a Windows
client, you must enable and setup the following
parameters (the options given to each parameter are
the settings I use on my RH 6.1 system; YMMV):

passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n
*Retype*new*UNIX*password* %n\n *success*

The passwd chat option should all be on one line
(WebMail mangles it). HTH.

--- Jan-Pieter van den Heuvel <jan-pieter at piozum.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's possible for Windows users to change their
> Samba password:
> 
> 1.	Start->Settings->Control Panel
> 2.	Security (translated from Dutch, so I hope it's
> correct)
> 3.	Change Windows-password.
> 4.	Select Microsoft Networking and click OK.
> 5.	Enter the old & new password and click OK.
> 6.	Done :)
> 
> This works for me, but I don't know if it will work
> when Samba is not acting
> as a Domain Controller.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jan-Pieter van den Heuvel
> Piozum Computer & Webpagebuilding
> 
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: samba-admin at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]Namens Niccolo
> Rigacci
> Verzonden: zondag 11 november 2001 12:37
> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
> Onderwerp: Changing password from Windows
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a working samba (2.0.7) server (Debian
> GNU/Linux 2.2)
> configured with security = user, but NOT domain. The
> clients are
> Windows 98.
> 
> I whish windows users to be able to change their
> password
> without logging on the server (unix account on the
> server are
> disabled). I tried from the Password applet of the
> Control
> Panel, but I was able only to change the password
> stored on the
> Windows client itself, nothing happened in the
> /etc/samba/smbpasswd.
> 
> I think I need a smbpasswd client program running on
> Windows, or
> I just missing some thing?
> 
> Niccolo
> Firenze - Italy
> 
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