[Samba] Samba+Ldap - trying to change password

[Peter Erickson]

Thanks for the idea, but my passwords dont include any spaces. So unfortunately, that was not the problem. If this helps at all, I am running FreeBSD 4.4. Any other idea would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:18:02PM -0700, George Farris said:
> Does your password contain a space character?
> 
> I had to modify smbldap-passwd.pl to accept passwords that contained a
> space character other wise I got that message.
> 
> The line in smbldap-passwd.pl is:
> 	$ret = system "$ldappasswd $dn -s $pass > /dev/null";
> replace it with:
> 	$ret = system "$ldappasswd $dn -s \"$pass\" > /dev/null";
> 
> On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 12:07, Thomas Klettke wrote:
> > >I have been following the howto for samba and ldap from the idealx.org
> > >website, but im having trouble changing the password. Unfortunately, I
> > >dont know perl good enough to debug this myself. When I run
> > >smbldap-passwd.pl testuser, i get the following output.
> > 
> > >root at sideswipe% smbldap-passwd.pl testuser
> > >Changing password for testuser
> > >New password :
> > >Retype new password :
> > >Change password of an LDAP user
> > 
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > 
> > >Can't return outside a subroutine at /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-passwd.pl
> > >line 170, <STDIN> chunk 2.
> > 
> > >--
> > >Peter Erickson
> > 
> > Peter,
> > I've tried to create the same error message, got it when I entered a blank
> > password. Is that what you did?
> > Another place to check: Did you modify /usr/local/sbin/smbldap_conf.pm to
> > match your settings?
> > 
> > I know, it sounds trivial, but these are the first things to look at before
> > attempting any further troubleshooting.
> > 
> > Thomas Klettke
> > thomask at aesbus.com
> > Network Administrator
> > Aesbus Knowledge Solutions
> > Houston, TX 77069
> > "The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed RedHat."
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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