AW: [Samba] Password change problem, Samba 3.0.4

[McKeever Chris]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:02 , Kopmann, Goetz <Goetz.Kopmann at airbus.com> sent:

>Hi Sean,
>
>> smbpasswd
>> Old SMB password:
>> New SMB password:
>> Retype new SMB password:
>> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The
>> specified password is invalid.
>> Failed to change password for testuser
>
>We have exactly the same problem with Samba v2.2.8a. We found out that the
>password change process works if you set "unix password sync = no". But
>that's not a good solution fo us. Users should be able to log in to Linux
>with the same password. 

no one seems to like our solution, but we turned off _all_ windows->linux linux->windows password changes from the windows/linux session 
and just made a web page that sets both - it takes a lot of crap out of the equation and also lets us sync our email and web passwords at the 
same time - just a thought


>
>I hope there is another solution.
>
>Götz
>
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