[Samba] Re: smpasswd and ldap ...

Martyn Ranyard ranyardm at lineone.net
Thu Feb 14 08:26:08 GMT 2002


If you use unix password sync and ldap as a PAM module, passwd should 
change the posix password from the password script.

At 11:13 AM 2/14/02 -0500, Tom Diehl wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, jan wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > > Another question ...
> > >
> > >     When using the LDAP SAM, should smpasswd change the POSIX password?
> >
> > no smbpasswd does not change the posix passwd. The windows password is
> > changed. So you always have two "password databases"
>
>Anyone know a good way to script this so they stay in sync?? Off the top
>of my head I would think it would be possible but I could be wrong.
>
>Comments??
>
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