Enabling SWAT

[Christian Barth]

> 
>  Did it worked? I dont think it will.
It works since 3 years!!

> Because(as far as I know)  the encryption performed by smbpasswd is different than passwd.
> If that is the case unix will read passwd file which will be nothing but smbpasswd file.
> Which has different encryption techinique and unix will intrepret it other way or may not even intrepret it!!
Do not mix /etc/passwd and /usr/local/samba/privat/smbpasswd, the 
datebases, with /usr/bin/passwd and /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd, 
the programms to maintain the databases.

If you have "unix passwd sync = yes" in your smb.conf and set it up 
corrctely, then the smbpasswd-program at the unix prompt changes 
both, the unix passwd in /etc/passwd and the samba passwd in 
.../privat/smbpasswd.

And this is where my litle trick starts: I asume that the unix user 
knows the passwd command to change his passwd. I link the passwd 
command to the smbpasswd command and this way the user changes both 
of his passwords at the same time. And I hide the normal unix 
password programm by renaming it.

OK,
things get more difficult if you look at nis-clients or similar.

Christian


> So dont think that is wise idea.
> The best idea is to write a script pref. in high level language like c or c++ which wil make it
> job easier and efficient.
> Gaurang.
>   Christian Barth <barth at cck.uni-kl.de> wrote: > 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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