password chat, sending old password

Katrin Fitz fi at fh-wedel.de
Thu Mar 8 16:16:46 GMT 2001


Thanks for the hint.

is this problem going to be solved in samba TNG?

until then, i am going to write a wrapper for the yppasswd
command which invoces smbpasswd. So passwordchanging from
Windows is not possible. Users need to use linux therefor.
> 
> This is a known issue.  IIRC, it is not feasible to do Samba PDC/NIS
> password changing integration on any machine other than the NIS master
> for exactly this reason.

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Katrin Fitz                 ------       http://www.fh-wedel.de/~fi
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