Password Change from NT client

[Ondrej Hanak]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Henning Eiben wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-ntdom at samba.org [mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org]On Behalf Of
> > shepherd at orgx.co.nz
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 10:10 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> > Subject: Re: Password Change from NT client
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > OK, after sorting out the passwd chat the password changing seems to work
> > fine - Thanks heaps!
> 
> Well, I seem to have some trouble with my passwd chat ... could you give me
> a hand? This is part of my smb.conf:
> 
> encrypt passwords = yes
> unix password sync = true
> passwd chat debug = true
> passwd chat = "*New Password*" %n\n "*New password (again)*" %n\n "*Password
> changed*"
> 
> For some reason this doesn't work ... I changed my chat-script to this:
> 
> passwd chat = "*Password*" %o\n "*New password*" %n\n "*New password
> (again)*" %n\n "*Password changed*"
> 
> But Samba tells me, that I can't use the %o with encrypted passwords ... any
> hints?
> 

Old password is not needed, cause during passwd change effective uid is 0 
(root). Passwd chat is a some kind of alchymism. If you have chat debug 
turned on, so you can see you trouble in log.smb. For detailed info. set 
log level=100. Then you will be able to solve this. For me this works fine:
passwd chat = "*New password*" %n\n "*New password*" %n\n 
"*Successfully*" on RH.

Hope this helps.
Hoj O.H.