Samba running on the nis-slave server and passwrod sync ?

[Christian Hoffmann]

Hello,

You wrote:

>You can hack the sources for yppasswd and take it out, that's what I did. 
>
>samba runs as root anyway, and I changed the program to yppasswd.hack 
>and chown'ed it 0700 for root only access. 

I think, thats what I'm looking for. I have the same problem: I want to
change the smbpassd-passwords and the NIS-Password on a NIS-Client
(RedHat 5.2) with samba-2.04b and it failed, because my yppasswd
programm ask me for the old password, also as root.

I'm unable to hack my yppasswd, because I don't know enough about C and
the gcc (I tried it :-().

Could you send me your hacked yppasswd ?

>There's a program called NISGINA, which has a samba password syncing 
>tool. So I've created a script on each samba server which act as slaves too, 
>so when the slave receives a password change it sync's via unix's nis setup 
>and also sync's the samba password on all domain servers too. 

We are using NISGINA too. But - NISGINA syncs if the NIS-Password ist
changed by the NISGINA-Client the smbpasswd-password. But what we like
to do is to sync the NIS-Password when the smbpasswd-password is changed
by the NT-Client. Did I misunderstood it ?

Thank you!

Christian




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