NT password change

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

ah... ohhhkkaaayyy...  i get it (not).  ok, perhaps, tim, i should do some
exploration on this one.  i'm in the middle of security descritor land at
the moment: please can you keep tabs on this one.  try it without the unix
password sync or something.  rpcclient against nt4sp4 and nt4sp3 and samba
works fine, you see...

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Tim Winders wrote:

> I thought I would try a little experiment:
> 
> I have 2.0.0 from 10/25/98 running under Digital Unix 4.0D with the defaul
> configure script and unix password sync = Yes.
> 
> I have logged into the Samba domain from a WinNT 4.0sp4 workstation.  I
> then tried to use the WinNT CHANGE PASSWORD to change my Samba domain
> password.  It came back and said the password was not correct and it was
> not changed.
> 
> The log file shows:
> 
> [1998/11/12 15:16:23, 0] rpc_server/srv_util.c:(676)
>   api_pipe_request: **** MUST CALL become_user() HERE ****
> 
> and the smbpasswd is not changed, *BUT* the Unix password *IS* changed.
> Pretty neat, huh?
> 
> Just thought you might like to know...
> 
> === Tim
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