Sync issue with encrypted passwords

[Dave.Stevenson at durham.ac.uk]

I recall a brief discussion of this in the NTDOM archive ...somwhere in time

To change the password without the old password didn't the samba server
need to be on the NIS domain controller?  or
a hacked version of passwd was necessary to avoid asking for the old password under
UNIX?

In either case I still don't see how samba calls passwd with the plain text password
when encrypted passwords are used unless it unhashes it.... or sets the hash as the password :-o

Can someone enlighten me or point me to the thread? a search on "passwd chat encrypt" didn't
find it.
 
> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:32:15 +1000, hai scritto:
> 
> >"ERROR: the 'passwd chat' script [*old*password* %o\n *new*password*
> >%n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed*] expects to use the old plaintext
> >password via the %o substitution. With encrypted passwords this is not
> >possible."
> 
> >How do I resolve this? Am I forced to use plaintext passwords when
> 
> Samba will call (considering a normal unix passwd account), the passwd
> binary as root; so it won't be asked for the old password.
> 
> It will be
> 1)
> new unix password
> retype...
> 
> and not 
> 2)
> type old passwd
> new unis passwd
> retype
> 
> so change password chat according to case 1.
> Samba+sync+encrypted is ok.
> 
> -- 
> giulioo at tiscalinet.it