Problem with smbpasswd

[Jeremy Allison]

Rainer Hauck wrote:

> 
> Great, this solved the problem. Thank you very much.
> 
> But there are still some questions left open:
> 
> Why was root allowed to change the password?
> 

Root doesn't go through the client/server mechanism
unless you explicitly add a -r localhost to the
smbpasswd line. This is to allow root to update
a local smbpassword file without needing to know
a users old password.

> Is there a way to do the 'password sync' with HP-UX 10.20? Where can I find a
> list which OSs support this feature? All I found in the docs is that not all
> OSs support it.
> 

Not sure - you will have to look into compiling
with -DALLOW_CHANGE_PASSWORD with HPUX.

> How can I set the debug level for smbpasswd. The command line option '-D'
> seems to be ignored. To my opinion it takes the debug level from the smb.conf
> file. This is especially annoying when you are using a high debug level to
> track some problem because all your users automatically get the debug output
> when changing their passwords.
> 

Well, by default it takes the debug level from
smb.conf (as do all the Samba tools). You can
override it on the smbpasswd command line via the -D
option.

Jeremy.

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