mksmbpasswd

[Geoffrey Lee]

Hello david bear and hello all,

Seems that smbpassword --> unix password sync would do you good. Just hack
the smb.conf file for sync unix password when the smbpassword is changed.
You must also specify the password program (absolute path *must* be given!!)
and the password chat. Then you can instruct your users to use smbpasswd to
change their passwords, instead of passwd.

Btw all, I'm having a problem with the password sync. I can't seem to get it
right. I have already enabled the lines in my smb.conf file, and yet when I
tried to change m password with smbpasswd  when I'm logged in as a non-root
user, it says that I've entered a bad password. I think this is a problem
with my password chat line. This is the output I get when I change the
password with passwd for root :

New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
Passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully

And for a non-root user :

Changing password for $USERNAME
(current) UNIX password:
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
Passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully

My password chat line is like this:

....=*New*UNIX*password:* %n\n *Retype*new*UNIX*password:* %n\n
*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*

what could be wrong?

-----Original Message-----
From:	samba-ntdom at samba.org [mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org] On Behalf Of
David Bear
Sent:	Thursday, November 11, 1999 7:44 AM
To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
Subject:	mksmbpasswd

I issued the command

cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd > /etc/samba.d/smbpasswd

to create my initiall smbpasswd file.  Question is, can I issue that
command again when my unix passwd file changes to just overwrite the
smbpasswd?  Or will there be other problems??



David Bear
College of Public Programs/ASU
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