Fwd: Re: [Samba] samba 2.x and password history

[Hesham S. Ahmed]

You should have the 'pam password change = yes' in
your smb.conf, this way samba will use pam to change
the password instead of running the passwd chat


--- Bob Hemedinger <rhemedinger at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have password history configured in my
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth file, however password
> history
> is not being written to /etc/security/opasswd when
a
> user changes his/her password. It looks like when
> samba invokes the passwd command as root, my pam
> configuration is ignored... or at least the
portion
> that is supposed to maintain password history.
> 
> I suspect that this is more of an os-level issue
> instead of a samba issue, but does anyone have any
> thoughts about how to force pam to write the old
> password to the password history file when a samba
> user changes his/her password?
> 
> 
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