[Samba] passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

[John H Terpstra]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Thorsten D. Marsen wrote:

> 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?

No. pam_smbpass.so is a PAM module that directly acts on the
/etc/samba/smbpasswd file.

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org