PDC password changes

[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

No, I don't have an NT client, but it shouldn't be too hard to hack one
together; mine is actually in perl so it's a starting point.  I've put it
in http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin/mchp.html .  Beware -- I take no
responsibility for bad things you do to your password files!

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Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
Department of Demography    -    University of California at Berkeley
2232 Piedmont Avenue #2120  -    Berkeley, California, 94720-2120 USA
http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin --------------------------SEIU1199

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Christian Kumpf wrote:

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> Am Tue, 11 Aug 1998 schrieb Andrew Perrin - Demography:
> >Wow, you're asking for a lot.  See below for what we've got:
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> >> 6.) samba/unix password synchronization
> >I have a hack I've developed that listens to a socket on the server then
> >changes the smbpasswd file; the daemon handles both passwd and smbpasswd
> >and the client sends it a string over the socket from other machines.
> >This works, but: (1) it's not exactly elegant; and (2) there are some
> >serious security concerns if you think your network might be sniffed.
> 
> Security issues are not important in this context (at least for me). Do
> you have a WinNT client program for this solution? In this project I
> don't want the users to log in on the linux server - the password is
> used for pop-3 authentication. So, if I had a program, that allows
> the password change from the NT box, this problem is solved.
> 
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