Encrypted passwords really necessary for PDC ?

[Christian Barth]

> 	We use Clyde Hoover's npasswd on Solaris boxes as a replacement for the
> standard passwd program and have hacked that to call the SAMBA smbpasswd
> program.  So when a user changes their password under Solaris smbpasswd
> gets updated as well.  We needed to use an Expect script to get round
> smbpasswd wanting terminal input, but otherwise it was pretty
> straightforward.
Sounds good. But want about users invoking smbpasswd directly or 
changing their passwords from the net, for example from NT with 
"alt+ctr+del"? 
Are you working with "unix passwd sync" or is there an easy way to 
configure samba not to change passwords remotly.

(I'm asking this, because I can't get unix passwd sync working: When 
I debugg it, it works; when a users uses it it doesn't.)

Christian




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  Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Christian Barth

  Universitaet Kaiserslautern  
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