smbpasswd from www...

[Dan Christopherson]

You can get around that with the -U (pretend i'm this other person)
parameter. In perl, you can do things like (paraphrased, anyway, I can
send you a cgi i've written if you like):
use English;

#put my real uid and gid into my effective pair, so smbpasswd won't
whine.
($EUID, $EGID) = ($UID, $GID)

open "|smbpasswd -r $MY_PDC -U $user"


this sort of thing has worked for me.

danch

Todd Stiers wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am building an entire network password synchronization method that
> needs to use smbpasswd to change the SAMBA password.
> 
> The problem is smbpasswd won't run suid, and it fails to run
> suid from another script, putting a huge wrench in my scheme.
> 
> Thank you
> -Todd
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