How does one change a passwd with Samba

[Medi Montaseri]

That's no fun...maybe we can write some CGIs for that...

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Medi Montaseri                               medi at CyberShell.com
Unix Distributed Systems Engineer            HTTP://www.CyberShell.com
CyberShell Engineering
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, James Kreuziger wrote:

> 
> Well, you could try using the "Passwords" Control Panel, 
> and try clicking on the "Change Windows Password" button.  
> I say try because I've tried using this feature on my 
> Win95/98 boxes here with no success.  All it does is 
> muck things up enough that I have to do the following.  
> 
> 1) Wipe out the affected user entry from the smbpassword 
>    file.
> 
> 2) Restart smbd.
> 
> 3) Add the user to the smbpassword file.
> 
> 4) Have the user change their password using smbpasswd.
> 
> This is a problem that I (and others) have mentioned 
> in the past.  It has occured on both of my setups 
> (2.0.6 and 2.0.7 on Solaris 2.6), and I have never 
> been able to figure out why it doesn't work.  I'm lucky 
> in that most of my users are unix savy, so training 
> to use a command line is not a problem.
> 
> -Jim
> 
> *************************************************
> Jim Kreuziger
> jkreuzig at uci.edu
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> 
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Medi Montaseri wrote:
> 
> > 
> > How does a Window's user change thier password on a Unix based 
> > Samba server. I know they can login to the unix box and use smbpasswd(8).
> > But these users are MS Windows users and I hate to have to explain what
> > a command prompt looks like.
> > 
> > Unfortunately I don't know enough Windows. Is there such a client
> > feature built into the Windows, how do they do it against a PDC?
> > 
> > If no solution is available, can someone modify smbpasswd(8) to
> > operate in a non-interactive mode, so that I can call it from a
> > programming environment for a CGI application.
> > 
> > Or can someone point out a library that I can use. I might write
> > a Perl package around it.
> > 
> > This is too basic, I'm sure someone has solve this....
> > 
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> > Medi Montaseri                               medi at CyberShell.com
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