password change problem

[Carlos Henrique]

> I'm using samba-2.0.0beta1.
> 
> When trying to change a password as a non-root user with smbpasswd I get
> the following message from smbpasswd:
> 
> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : The specified
> password is invalid.
> 
> and the following message in log.smb:
> 
> [1998/11/20 14:36:49, 0] smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(684)
>   check_oem_password: incorrect password length (1780921600).
> 
> Whoa!  I didn't type that many characters in my password! :-)
> 
> Is this a known problem?  Is there a fix in a later alpha?
> 
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	Have you "unix password sync = yes" in smb.conf file?
	Have you any limit for unix passwords?

	If the answer is yes for these questions, it's the problem.
	Else... I don't know...(I have similar problem).