samba nt and nis

[Christian Barth]

> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Christian Barth wrote:
> 
> > >  Is it possible to change my Password from a NT-Machine in nis baove samba?
> > Yes, if the samba sever is on the same machine then the NIS server
> >
> > >  And how i can do it?
> > put a "cd /var/yp; make" at the end of the passwd chat.
> > or let cron do this.
> 
> I haven't tried this but you can change the password chat to use yppasswd
> instead of passwd. Then you can use it even in case the samba server is
> not your NIS master.

In my expirence yppasswd dosen't work: It needs the old password in 
clear text for the chat, even if running as root on the nis-server, 
at last the implementations I know about. And we don't have the old 
password in clear text if unix passwd sync is set to true, see man 
smb.conf

> 
> It works only if samba does the password chat with the UID of the user -
> does it?
The passwd chat is run as root if unix passwd sync is set to true, 
see man smb.conf

Christian

> 
> You need the unix password sync option of course.
> 
> Cheers
> 	Robert
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