OpenBSD 2.9 - passwd sync - passwd chat

Bolke de Bruin bolke at xs4all.nl
Sat Oct 27 12:56:15 GMT 2001


(I'm crossposting this beacuse I'm not sure if it's a bug or if it's config
error)

I am running OpenBSD 2.9 as a PDC for a small domain
containing some W2K (no service pack yet) and Win98 clients.
I would like to use the password synchronization option,
but this fails unfortunately.
Turning on logging (eg log level = 101 passwd chat debug = True)
gives me a log entry for the passwd chat along the lines of this:

	Expected [*New*] received [passwd: who are you??]

It seems as if the passwd program is checking which user is running
it and fails.

Is this a normal error or am I doing something wrong here?


On a side note: The useradd program does not accept usernames containing
a "$" which makes it difficult to add computers easily (you have to add
it manually to the /etc/passwd file and you will get a insecurity mail
delivered to root) does someone know a (automatic) workaround for this?

btw: this is all on samba 2.2.2

thx in advance
Bolke de Bruin





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