[Samba] passwd sync - troubles

[Terry Davis]

I don't know what was going on.  I never did get that incorrect passwd
error again after I completely rebooted my box. I figured out it was a
problem with my passwd chat.  I had to turn debugging up to 100 to see
what was going on for sure. but I saw that it was not matching on the
responses and failing.  What is weird is that it did change the
passwords when it was failing on the chat responses, can someone explain
that one to me? 

Thank you for your help guys!


On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 06:38, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> Mac wrote:
> > 
> > >From: Terry Davis <tdavis at approbation.org>
> > >To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > >Subject: [Samba] passwd sync - troubles
> > >Date: 11 Mar 2002 01:58:00 -0600
> > >
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I am trying to change my passwd via windows password utility.  Here is
> > >what I have set:
> > >
> > >I have verified that the chat is correct.  And the passwd program works
> > >standalone fine.  In my logs, i am seeing:
> > >[2002/03/11 01:11:26, 0] smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(817)
> > >  check_oem_password: incorrect password length (-1461780121).
> > 
> > Bit cryptic isn't it.
> > 
> > It means (you're gonna love this), that the old SMB password supplied
> > when you made the change password request was wrongly typed (more or
> > less)
> > 
> > This is based on my own testing and mightnot be exactly accurate, but
> > seems to correlate in all the tests I've done.
> 
> This is correct.  The old password is used to decrypt the new password. 
> The test for a successful decryption is the 'password length' being set
> correctly.  
> 
> Ensure you are running with 'encrypt passwords = yes'.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
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Terry Davis
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