"Root" passwd overwritten by user's passwd
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at pcug.org.au
Mon Jun 26 13:23:00 GMT 2000
My understanding is that passwd program is run as ROOT when encrypt
passwords is on (becouse samba does not know the plain text password of
the user). Use '/usr/bin/passwd %u' to make passwd change the users
password.
Ong Mooi Lan wrote:
>
> I've Samba 2.0.6 running as a NT-Server, but there is a problem:
>
> When user change password at their workstation, the "root" password get
> overwriten by the new user password as well. Appreciate your assistance.
> Thank you.
>
> Below is same setting at the Samba server FYI:
> ================================
> workgroup = BGCM
> encrypt passwords = Yes
> update encrypted = Yes
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd
> passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *Retype*new*UNIX*password* %n\n
> *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
> unix password sync = Yes
> domain logons = Yes
> preferred master = Yes
> domain master = Yes
>
> Ong Mooi Lan
> Systems Administrator
> BICCGeneral Cables (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
> email: mlong at biccgeneral.com.my
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Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at pcug.org.au
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