[Samba] unix password sync doesn't update smbpasswd file!

Christian Barth barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Tue Feb 26 23:53:03 GMT 2002


>
> Oddly, I have (once) seen the root smbpasswd get changed without the
> unixpasswd staying in sync, and I'm not sure how or why this happened.
Thats by design: if smbpasswd is run as root, the passwd program 
specified in smb.conf is not run, the passwd chat parameter is not 
used. At least this was in 2.0.7 in it's man page.

Christian

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