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

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:32:59PM +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> ...
> > NERR_PasswordTooShort   2246  The password is too short
> > ...
> > 
> > So I changed the error code 86 into 2246 - but the error
> > message I get in win95 is: "The password of this user is
> > too recent to change".
> > 
> > I can see in ethereal that a response packet with the error
> > number 2246 is indeed sent from samba. The text displayed
> > by ethereal for this error message is "The password is too short".
> > 
> > I don't know why windows doesn't display the right message...
> 
> I should have started thinking before posting (TM) :-)
> 
> I tried connecting the win95 machine to our w2k server,
> set the policy to only allow passwords >= 5 chars, and
> then ethereal while I try to change the password: The
> W2K server doesn't send error 2246, but 2245!
> 
> After patching smbd/lanman.c so that an error 2246
> is returned, the Win9x user now gets the following
> response when changing to a password that is too short:
> 
> "Your password is too short, you've used it
> before, or it doesn't contain the required combination
> of numbers, uppercase and lowercase letters, and symbols"
> 
> Just what I need!

Great detective work ! I'll see if I can change the mainline
source to reflect this.

Thanks,

	Jeremy.