[Samba] Change password via rpcclient?

[Andrew Bartlett]

Adam Williams wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to point rpcclient at a samba PDC and change the user's
> password?  With rpcclient I can "logon" to the PDC as someone with admin
> privilages (to do adddriver, etc..) from a remote machine. smbpasswd -r
> seems to provide no similiar functionality.

Try the rpcclient from Samba-TNG.  samba-tng.org  (use CVS, the
'release' is very old).

They do all their admin stuff over RPC (not directly to the passdb) and
therefore would probably have this stuff working.

Andrew Bartlett

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