[Samba] Password woes...

[Steve Morley]

Hi Again,

> it's fairly easy to keep the passwords in sync...
> just set up samba to change the unix passwords with the "unix password
> chat" stuff in smb.conf

Okay, I see that this stuff is defaulted to being configured when I testparm
so that's cool...

> use pam_smbpass to make pam update the samba password when the unix
> password is updated.

Ahhh..  How do I do this part?  The docs seems to refer to a pam configuration
file that I can't find in the same location.  I'm using FreeBSD 4.7, but all
the docs seems to assume Linux :(

> you can script add the users with smbpasswd -a but they'll all have to
> set their own passwords.

Based on what you said above though, shouldn't I be able to port over the
BSD master.passwd file (this works for the UNIX side of things) and then
using pam_smbpass sync things up?  There's a few hundred users...

> you must have been using unencrypted passwords...

yeah, back then we were using mostly 95 machines, so I went with plain text.

> I strongly suggest using encrypted passwords but i think it is still
> possible to use unencrypted passwords (and no smbpasswd) with 2.2.7
> I'm not sure about that, and I don't know how to do it.

Yes, I'm using encrypted ones with the current configuration, and it works,
except that I need to manually add users with the smbpasswd command right now.

So, all I need is the details on syncing the UNIX passwd with SAMBA via
pam_smbpass.  I was really hoping to get the box installed today so that the
students were using it tomorrow, but if I can't get this figured out, I'll be
eating crow until I can.

Any further help would be most appreciated.

Steve