[Samba] passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

[Thorsten D. Marsen]

Hi John,

> The smbpasswd utilitiy only changes the password in /etc/samba/smbpasswd.
> It does NOT use PAM at all.
>
> The system tool 'passwd' (/bin/passwd or /usr/bin/passwd) will use PAM.
> Whatever you configure PAM to do it will follow.
>
> Firstly, pam_smbpass.so does NOT do unix system password changing! It can
> be added to your PAM configuration to update the /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> file.

In the case LDAP is configured, smbpasswd will change the lm/ntPassword
Fields in the Samba Schemata instead of /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Do you know if
pam_smbpass.so also regognizes this configuration?

Thanks,
Thorsten.