[Samba] Samba calling passwd as user?

[John Benedetto]

--On Tuesday, September 03, 2002 5:43 AM -0700 Bob Hemedinger 
<rhemedinger at yahoo.com> wrote:

> When synching passwords, it looks like the passwd
> program is called by root. Can samba call passwd as a
> user instead?

It HAS to call it as root, because that way the user's password does not 
need to be known.

- john