nt password changing now works.

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Thu Oct 22 17:24:57 GMT 1998


you need the "password chat" to succeed.  if you either don't set one
or the attempt to change the unix password fails, then it will not proceed
to the nt password changing.

On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, David Bannon wrote:

> At 05:07 PM 21/10/1998 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> >put "unix password sync = yes" in smb.conf.
> 
> Now, that seems to be what is causing the problems some people are
> reporting, with passwd sync on, I cannot change the passwd using the famous
> three fingured salute. Works fine if I disable the passwd sync option in
> smb.conf. Luke warned us about not getting too excited.
> 
> Looks like a stroll through the log files....
> 
> RH5.1, no shadow passwd stuff.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >> Its really great work, thanks Luke !
> >
> >remember, guys, that this has a tendency to fall back on the "SMBtrans2"
> >password change, i don't yet know why.  so please don't think it's exactly
> >the same behaviour as an nt server... yet :)
> >
> >
> >
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<a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.anu.edu.au" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton  </a>
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