UNIX and SAMBA passwd sync

[David Bannon]

At 09:02 AM 31/01/2000 +1100, Ondrej Hanak wrote:
>Hi all,
>does anybody know how to synchronize UNIX psswords with SAMBA. From SAMBA 
>to UNIX it works fine (congratulations, SAMBA is a great thing!).
>But i want to change SAMBA password whenever i change password with UNIX 
>passwd(1). Of course i can wrote my passwd, but i think that better 
>solution already exists. 
>Thanks for any tips.

I used to use a modified version of the unix passwd command to do just
that. But seems pretty silly now that samba will will do the reverse. I can
send you the source if you need, but consider only changing through samba,
much safer and cleaner.

David
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