Changing password!

[Robert Carlsson]

Small note regardning this sync...

DON'T run smbpasswd as root to test if sync works.
smbpasswd accesses the smbpasswd-file directly when run as root...so it
won't trigger the sync code.
If you want to test with smbpasswd, use a user other than root.

//Robert

Oliver Six wrote:
> 
> "Mark A. Tagliaferro" <be_lak at yahoo.co.uk> wrote on 22.10.2001 11:48:41:
> 
> >
> >I'm sending this again because i never got an answer!
> >
> >
> >Is it possible to change the linux pasword from a windows or dos machine
> >connected via samba?
> >
> >I'm using SuSE 7.1 with Samba v 2.0.7 if it makes any difference.
> >
> >Mark
> >
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> Hi Mark,
> 
> of course it's possible. See the options "passwd program" and "passwd chat"
> for the [global] section. On my SuSE 7.1 the following lines do the trick:
> 
> [global]
>   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>   passwd chat = *ew*assword %n\n *ew*assword* %n\n *changed*
> 
> Ciao Oliver
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