Password Change from NT client

Ondrej Hanak hanak at IRIS.osu.cz
Fri Mar 17 09:07:19 GMT 2000



On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 shepherd at orgx.co.nz wrote:

> I have samba 2.0.6 installed and network logins are working fine.  However
> the users would like to change their passwords from the NT client by the
> usual methods.  When they try they get something like "the username and/or
> password is incorrect".  Can this be done or does it effectively have to
> be done administratively via smbpasswd?
> 

Every user can change their password by standard method in NT. Problem may 
be in unix passwd sync turned on. Caused by cracklib in PAM (control over 
"right" passwd) or in passwd chat.

If you need to sync samba and unix passwords, try turn on debug for
passwd chat and look to logs.  

O.H.


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