[Samba] Re: smpasswd and ldap ...

[tarjei at nu.no]

Take a look at the utilities found at samba.idealx.org/ they contain a 
perl script for changing the password through the password sync option. 
Beware though, that the manual contains a wrong password chat script so 
you'll have to make your own there.

Tarjei

C.Lee Taylor wrote:

> >If you use unix password sync and ldap as a PAM module, passwd should 
> change the posix password from the password script.
>
>     Okay, I have tested it and this does seem to work, but I seem to 
> have a few question, because I seem to be having problems when users 
> change their password.  Let me explain ... We reset all passwords to a 
> fixed password and told all the users to login and change them to what 
> they wanted.  The first user went fine, but then next user was told 
> that they had enter the wrong password and could not change their 
> password.  So, I was on hand and reset both userPassword, and 
> smbPasswords, at first, thinking that smbpasswd would change all three 
> password I got confused. I then found that I could not set the users 
> POSIX password using passwd, it just seemed to hang ... I found that 
> if I deleted /etc/.pwd.lock it worked.  So now I changed all the 
> passwords with "passwd and smbpasswd" and then got the user to change 
> it in Windows, but then the next user would coming into the same 
> problem. So I deleted the pwd.lock again and so ...
>
>     I then started looking at the parameters in smb.conf and start 
> that I was missing a few things ... so I started playing with 
> different options and now I am confused and would like a little help ...
>
>     With out anybody telling me to look at the source to figure this 
> out, does any know which is the correct ( best ) option that is need 
> to set to get userPassword and ( ntPassword & lmPassword ) in sync 
> when using Samba 2.2.3a with LDAP SAM ...
>
> Thanks for everybodies advice ...
>
> Mailed
> Lee
>
>