Changing passwords on both UNIX & SAMBA

[Aaron Rainwater/CADC Co-op]

This is helpful, but I need some clarification:

I tried changing the password chat before (in order to not
ask for %o), but it crapped out too.  When I run smbpasswd
from the UNIX shell, does it run "passwd" as root just as
it should when you initiate the password change from an
NT machine?

Nothinman wrote:
> 
> When using encrypted passwords you don't have access to the %o variable
> since it is the unencrypted original password that the client never sends.
> To get around this passwd program is run as root eliminating the need for
> the original passwd, so change your passwd chat to reflect what passwd says
> when root runs it like "passwd <user>".
> 
> Jim Crilly
> Management Science Associates

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Aaron Rainwater
CADC Co-op