password synching -- Grrr.. (fwd)

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

The passwd program must be setuid root. Are you explicitly passing the user name to smbpasswd? Otherwise smbpasswd probably just get's uid (which would be root).

Kevin Currie wrote:

> Hello,
> This is a forwarded message from my unix sysadmin (he's taking care of the
> Unix side of things and I've got the NT side).  Just a little background,
> we're trying to execute smbpasswd from within Sun's passwd program.  We
> have the source.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 13:48:32 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Leonard J. Peirce" <peirce at lab2.cc.wmich.edu>
> Reply-To: leonard.peirce at wmich.edu
> To: CURRIE KEVIN <x7currie at lab2.cc.wmich.edu>
> Subject: password synching -- Grrr..
>
> Hi...
>
> I'm working with the password syncing and running into a problem.  Every
> time I try to exec smbpasswd from the passwd program everything runs ok
> until it tries to make the connection to the server and change the password.
> Then I get the message:
>
> smbpasswd: machine medusa rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.).
>
> But if I just run smbpasswd from the command line everything looks ok.
>
> Could you possibly ask on your mailing list if they have any idea what's
> happening?  Or perhaps some suggestions about debugging it?
>
> At the worst we could put a message in the passwd program telling people to
> run smbpasswd on their own to change their password.  Not optimal but it might
> be acceptable until we can get things working correctly.
>
> - Leonard



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Jens B. Jorgensen
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