[Samba] Re: Problem in changing Samba passwd

Raphael GARCIA garciar at cti.ecp.fr
Wed Feb 5 12:01:04 GMT 2003


After a lot of tries, I got the opinion that it is quite impossible
to make the option "unix password sync=yes" working correctly
but if someone was able to make it works, thank you to tell us

R. Garcia

"Thushani Weerasinghe" <thushani_a_w at yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de
news: 20030205103224.49996.qmail at web13008.mail.yahoo.com...
>
> Dear Members,
>
> I face a problem in changing the samba password from a remote machine.The
error is stated as RAP86. The version of Samba file sharing that I'm using
is 2.2.7
>
> The problem comes as follows;
>
> [Thushani at smbserver Thushani]$ smbpasswd
> Old SMB password:
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The
specified
>  password is invalid.
> Failed to change password for Thushani
>
>
> Please any one of you write to me what I should do to solve this problem
>
> In the smb.conf file I have
>
> unix password sync=yes
>
> passwd program = /bin/passwd %u
>
> passwd chat = *New* %n\n *Retype* %n\n
>
> password level = 8
>
> Regards,
>
> Thushani
>
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