Enabling SWAT

[Jon L.Gardner]

That allows clients to change their passwords from a Windows client, and 
have the UNIX password updated automatically. I need it to go the other 
way...when the UNIX password is changed, the smbpasswd entry is 
automatically updated.

On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 08:19 AM, Gaurang Pandya wrote:

> This boolean parameter controlls whether Samba attempts to synchronise 
> the UNIX password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password 
> in the smbpasswd file is changed. If this is set to true the 'passwd 
> program' program is called *AS ROOT* - to allow the new UNIX password 
> to be set without access to the old UNIX password (as the SMB password 
> has change code has no access to the old password cleartext, only the 
> new). By default this is set to false.
>
>

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Jon L. Gardner '89, Computer Systems Manager <mailto:jon at food.tamu.edu>
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