Still problems of password sync

[Ondrej Hanak]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, LEYMARIE Gerard wrote:

> All,
> 
> I'm using Samba 2.0.6 as a PDC on a YP server.
> Nt password are crypted and not in plaintext
> 
> I want to synchronise samba and YP password
> 
> I use %u parameter for username and receive it when users change password.
> I use also use %n to get new password, but this field is keep blank when
> informations are transmitted to the passwd chat.
> 
> In my script I use echo %u:%n > toto.txt and chpasswd %u:%n
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Thanks
> 

I had same problem with sync on RedHat6.1 and samba-2.1.prealpha.
I found that second response in chat sometimes didn't arrive to passwd.
Two times everything goes fine and 10 times not.
I solved this problem by hacking smbd/chpasswd.c. I changed IPC between 
smbd and passwd from terminal pair to two pipes. After this everything was 
o.k. Maybe problem is in something else (bad parameters of used terminal 
dev). But i didn't understand why such IPC was used. 
Any comment will be fine.

Cus. O.H.