[Samba] Samba password sync question
Josh Friberg-Wyckoff
jwcomputing at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 20 00:40:33 GMT 2002
Have you tried Group Policy editor (gpedit.msc) I am
pretty sure there is a setting in there somewhere to
disallow passoword changing.
--- Jethran Waugh <j.b.s.waugh at aston.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I would like to know if there is a simple way to
> disable the Change
> Password button available under XP. I have tried
> all the registry
> entries and they wont work. When a limited user
> account is created the
> relevant entry is not copied from
> HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT into
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER. The system I am using is Samba
> 2.2.5 running as a
> PDC with XP clients. I don't want to have to give
> all my users admin
> rights as that's a bit nasty.
>
> The solution I have come up with at the moment is to
> set passwd program
> in smb.conf to a script which I have written that
> just returns a non
> zero exit status. This then tells the users that
> the password change
> failed due to an invalid username or password. If
> it is not possible to
> disable the change password button is it possible to
> edit the error
> message windows displays when the password change
> fails?
>
>
> Thanks
> Jethran Waugh
>
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