[Samba] smb/unix password sync

Paul Miller paul-samba at pinheiro.tcimet.net
Mon Feb 4 11:46:24 GMT 2002


Yeah, that's really insecure.  Someone could just grab the password by
watching the command line.  The docs mentioned something about pam stacking
or something, but I don't know much about pam.
-Paul

> wouldn't a shell script work here?  Write a script that takes arguments
>  and pass them to smbpasswd and passwd individually.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # $1 = username
> # $2 = passwd
>
> echo "$2" | passwd --stdin $1
> smbpasswd $1 "$2"
>
> then call it with    script.sh username "password"
>
> or you can feed the password on stdin.  I don't know of the security
> concerns here so someone speak up.
>
>
>
> Paul Miller wrote:
>
>> How can I use the pam_smbpass module to sync unix passwd with
>> smbpasswd?
>>
>> Here's the details:
>> I'm using both passwd and smbpasswd.  When passwords are changed with
>> smbpasswd, passwd is sync'd.  I would like it so when passwds are
>> changed with passwd, smbpasswd is sync'd if-and-only-if a user exists
>> in smbpasswd.  (Not all unix accounts have access to samba).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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