Cannot change win2003 domain user's password with smbpasswd

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 04:28, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Lin Li wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | I cannot change the win2003 domain user's password with smbpasswd.
> | I  always get "machine 2003server1 rejected the password change:
> | Error was:  RAP86: The specified password is invalid.". Win2000
> | domain works fine.  Anyone tried it with success? I use 3.0.0
> | and also tried the code from cvs.
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> I thought there was a bug report about this.  But if not,
> please file one so we can get it addressed.  Thanks.

This might well be fixed in 3.0.3 CVS.  The server probably doesn't take
LM passwords any more, and probably also demands authentication for the
password change.  

I've addressed both these points in 3.0.3, but not actually aimed it at
W2k3.

Andrew Bartlett

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