Samba and nis question

[Alaa Alamood]

Hi

I have tried the first par, I still have problem to sync. password. Is any
way to aviod having root passwrod on the smb.conf file, there is some
security issues here

thanks in advance
Alaa


Shekhar wrote:

> 1.
>         passwd program = /usr/bin/yppasswd %u
>         unix password sync = Yes
>         passwd chat = *root*password* urpasswdhere\n \
> *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *NIS*
>
> 2.     My addmachine script.
>
> Usage addmachine machinename
> eg. addmahine comp1
> __________________________________________
> /usr/sbin/adduser $1$  -d /dev/null -s /bin/false
> smbpasswd -a -m $1$
> echo "Added Machine Account $1 to SMB DataBase."
> __________________________________________
>
> Shekhar
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alaa Alamood" <aaa at netman.dk>
> To: <samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:45 AM
> Subject: Samba and nis question
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Thanks for this nice product
> >
> > I have samba 2.2.2 running on alpha server (tru64 5.1), samba configured
> > to be PDC, and I have yppasswd on my server, my questions are
> >
> > 1- How is possible to sync. smbpasswd with yppasswd
> >       when I enable sync passwd  like the following
> >
> >         passwd program = /usr/bin/yppasswd
> >         unix password sync = yes
> >         passwd chat = *New*SMB*password* %n\n *Retype*new*SMB*password:*
> > %n\n *Password*changed*for*user*
> >
> >       and try to change the password from the user I got the following
> > error
> >
> >         machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password chang: Error was: the
> > specified password is ivalid
> >
> >
> > 2- I have made scripte to register the machines into yppasswd and
> > smbpasswd and I add the following in smb.conf file
> >
> >          add user scripte /usr/local/bin/addmachine -a %m
> >
> >          when I try to join the domain from win2k no thing happen
> >
> >           any body know why
> >
> >
> > thanks in advanc
> >
> > Alaa
> >
> >
> >