Samba PDC password sync

[Simo Sorce]

No.
that script, only create users in smbpasswd from /etc/passwd, do no convert
any password.
The only way to synchronize is to change password with smbpasswd and have unix password sync option in smb.conf.

It is not possible to sync changes made from windows unless you use plain text
passwords, which is impossible in a domain environment.
This is not a problem of samba, this happen becuse encrypted password are sent
from windows and stored as is and does not any function that can convert the
windows encrypted passwords into unix crypt or md5 compatible ones.

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:26:35AM +0530, NITIN  PANDE wrote:
> Joe,
> Last I had checked, there was no automatic way to transfer passwords.  You have
> to run that mkpasswd (not exact name!) script.  If you want to keep updating the
> /etc/passwd file you could write a small script that each time a user password
> is changed, it will run that mkpasswd script thingy.  HTH,
> Ciao,
> Nitin Pande
> Mail Administrator
> Ext. 6960
> 
> Joe Tseng wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone been able to make their Samba PDC work so that changes to
> > /etc/passwd would be made automatically to smbpasswd and vice versa?  If so,
> > what are the magic config lines in smb.conf to make this happen?  I have
> > been trying to do this so passwords can be changed either from the *nix
> > shell or from W2k.
> >
> > Joe Tseng
> > userid: joe_tseng / domain: hotmail.com
> > __________________________________________________
> >
> > "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson,
> > IBM, 1943
> 
> 

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