[Samba] Strange error message when a user can't change password

[abartlet at dp.samba.org]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:14:01AM -0400, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:
> > 
> > However, if a user selects a password that is too short,
> > he/she will get a misleading error message saying that
> > the _old_ password is wrong.
> > 
> > This occurs both when the user is on a w2k machine or
> > on a win95 machine.
> > 
> > How do I set it up so that the user is given
> > a better error message?
> 
> I don't think you can...
> 
> I gave up on that problem a while ago.
> 
> I'd love to be proved wrong though...
> brad

As I've mentaioned relitivly often, this code just needs 
to be fixed.  Sombody started on it, but it didn't really
get anywhere.  Returning the appropriate different errors is not
a major coding issue.

Andrew Bartlett