Unix Password File and smbpasswd file synchronisation?

[Gary Algier]

There are two issues:
     1) When an Windows user changes their passwd, it needs to update both.
     2) When a Unix user changes their passwd, ditto.
I suggest you look at using "--with-ldapsam" in samba and then use a PAM
module to handle the Unix side.  See:
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-ldap-ntlm/
Once this is in place, the /bin/passwd program can change both the local
(or NIS) passwd data and the LDAP lmpassword and ntpassword attributes.
With the "passwd program" and "unix password sync" set accordingly,
everything should stay in sync.

You will need Samba 2.2.3 (almost -- get from CVS) for the LDAP support.

Christian Barth wrote:

>>Hi
>>    Is there any way of keeping my unix password file and my smbpasswd file
>>in synchronisation? What i want to happen is when a user changes their
>>password under linux (passwd command) it changes their samba password as
>>well.
>>
> Set up samba with "unix password sync = yes" in smb.conf. Then rename 
> the unix-passwd command and use this in the passwd chacht an link 
> smbpasswd to passwd.
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
>>When a user changes their password using samba it changes their
>>password in the unix password file as well, therefore the two should keep
>>synhronised. Is there any way of doing this? I am running redhat 7.2.
>>
>>Thankyou
>>
>>Charlie
>>
>>
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