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passwd chat (G)

This  string  controls the "chat" conversation that
takes places between smbd and  the  local  password
changing  program to change the users password. The
string describes  a  sequence  of  response-receive
pairs  that  smbd uses to determine what to send to
the passwd program and what to expect back. If  the
expected  output  is not received then the password
is not changed.

This chat sequence is often  quite  site  specific,
depending  on what local methods are used for pass­
word control (such as NIS etc).

The string can contain the  macros  "%o"  and  "%n"
which are substituted for the old and new passwords
respectively. It  can  also  contain  the  standard
macros "\n", "\r", "\t" and "\s" to give line-feed,
carriage-return, tab and space.
The string can also contain a ´*´ which matches any
sequence of characters.

Double  quotes  can be used to collect strings with
spaces in them into a single string.

If the send string in any part of the chat sequence
is  a  fullstop  "."  then no string is sent. Simi­
larly, is the expect string is a fullstop  then  no
string is expected.

Note  that if the "unix password sync" parameter is
set to true, then this sequence is called *AS ROOT*
when  the  SMB  password  in  the smbpasswd file is
being changed, without access to the  old  password
cleartext.  In this case the old password cleartext
is set to "" (the empty string).

See also "unix password sync", "passwd program" and
"passwd chat debug"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of
> Adam.Propeck at fallon.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:29 AM
> To: samba-ntdom at us4.samba.org; samba-ntdom-admin at us4.samba.org
> Subject: REALLY NEED SOME QUICK HELP! -PLEASE!!
>
>
>
> I submitted this problem before but haven't received a
> response.  There
> were promises made as to performance of the SAMBA server, and
> my team is
> hard pressed to meet our deadlines.  I really need some help
> here guys (and
> gals).  Please let me know ASAP as I am currently working on our 2
> production servers now and can't wait!  THANKS in advance,
> ADAM PROPECK
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------
>           *************Previous Message*****************
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------
> I am running SAMBA 2.0.7 on a Solaris 2.7 Box, and want to
> continue to have
> an NT4 PDC.  I am having difficulty with password sync from NT to the
> Solaris side of things.  I would like to have users on Win98/NT
> workstations be able to change their passwords on the NT side through
> CTRL-ALT-DEL, Change Password, and then get SAMBA and our
> /etc/passwd to
> sync to the new password.  How can I go about doing this?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam Propeck
> Systems Administrator-Fallon
> adam.propeck at fallon.com
> 612-282-3458
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>    Below is an edited copy of my conf file.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> # Samba config file created using SWAT
> # from host.com (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
> # Date: 2000/09/26 11:59:36
>
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>       workgroup = FM
>       netbios name = FMSAMBA
>       server string = SAMBA SERVER
>       security = DOMAIN
>       encrypt passwords = Yes
>       update encrypted = Yes
>       min password length = 4
>       password server = NTPDC            <---- Actual name of
> PDC is here
>       passwd program = /bin/passwd %u
>       passwd chat debug = Yes
>       username map = /etc/user.map
>       unix password sync = Yes
>       debug hires timestamp = Yes
>       debug pid = Yes
>       debug uid = Yes
>       logon home =
>       os level = 0
>       local master = No
>       wins server = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>       hide files = /Network Trash
> Folder/TheFindByContentFolder/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/
>
> [Creative]
>       path = /data/fmsamba/
>
> [homes]
>       comment = Home Directory
>       path = /data/homes/%u
>       writeable = Yes
>       browseable = No
>
>
>