smbpasswd only works as root - please help.
George Farris
farrisg at mala.bc.ca
Thu Apr 19 18:11:28 GMT 2001
After upgrading from 2.0.7 to 2.2.0 smbpasswd has stopped working. If I
change a passwd when logged in as root it works just fine but when
logged in as a normal user it gives the following output:
[george at eagle samba-2.2.0]$ smbpasswd -D 3
Failed to open /etc/samba/secrets.tdb
added interface ip=142.231.39.30 bcast=142.231.39.255
nmask=255.255.255.0
Old SMB password:
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Connecting to 127.0.0.1 at port 139
socket option SO_KEEPALIVE = 0
socket option SO_REUSEADDR = 0
socket option SO_BROADCAST = 0
socket option TCP_NODELAY = 1
socket option IPTOS_LOWDELAY = 0
socket option IPTOS_THROUGHPUT = 0
socket option SO_SNDBUF = 16384
socket option SO_RCVBUF = 16384
socket option SO_SNDLOWAT = 1
socket option SO_RCVLOWAT = 1
socket option SO_SNDTIMEO = 0
socket option SO_RCVTIMEO = 0
machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : The
specified password is invalid.
Failed to change password for george
Anyone have any information about this?
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George Farris farrisg at mala.bc.ca
Computer Support Cowichan "For every vision - there is
Malaspina University-College an equal and opposite revision"
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