Enabling SWAT
Christian Barth
barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Mon Jan 14 12:07:05 GMT 2002
> 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.
How do you change the Unix password? What I have done was to rename
/usr/bin/passwd to /usr/bin/passwd.unix, include passwd.unix in the
password chat and set up /usr/bin/passwd to be a link to
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd. Only root has to be carefull when
changing the passwords.
Christian
>
> 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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