Sync issue with encrypted passwords

[Lisa Becktold {CADIG STAFF}]

Hi, Seth:

That's a good question....I haven't dealt with error prompts.  Has anyone
else created a "passwd chat" script to handle incorrect input?

Is there any way to make your /usr/bin/passwd program (or wrapper) quit
prompting for the user's old password?  That "old password" seems to be
a showstopper.  On our UNIX server, if root runs "/usr/bin/passwd username",
there is no "old password" prompt - and I believe that samba calls
/usr/bin/passwd as root.

Lisa

  
> Originator: samba-ntdom at samba.org
> From: Seth Vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
> Subject: Re: Sync issue with encrypted passwords
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> > 
> > Run the UNIX "passwd username" program as root.  What prompts do you see?
> > Incorporate parts of those prompts with wild cards in your "passwd chat"
> > script.
> 
> how do you handle situations where the password passed to passwd will be
> objected to by your passwd cracklib.
> 
> ie:
> passwd username
> enter old password - goodpass
> enter new password - badpass
> **** new password is idiotic you should be destroyed ***
> enter another new password -
> 
> blah blah blah
> 
> Is there  a good way to get around this problem?
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
> 
> 

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