smbpasswd

[Carey F. Cox]

I am trying to incorporate encrypted passwords into our server. I 
haven't enabled encryption as yet, because I wanted to check to ensure 
the users could change their passwords via smbpasswd. However, I keep 
getting the following error message when I try to change the password 
on the server...

$ smbpasswd -D 3
Old SMB password:
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Connecting to 127.0.0.1 at port 139
machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : The specified password is invalid.
Failed to change password for user

I have the following set in my smb.conf...

        update encrypted = Yes
        smb passwd file = /path-to-smbpasswd/smbpasswd
        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
        passwd chat = *current*password* %o\n *ew*password* %n\n *ew*password* %n\n *success*
        passwd chat debug = Yes
        password level = 1
        unix password sync = Yes

I am basing the passwd chat on the dialog from a regular passwd session...

$ passwd
Changing password for user
(current) UNIX password: 
New UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully

I also tried changing the user's password as root, which gave all indication 
that it was successful, but did not change the password.

I am doing anything wrong?

Carey

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