[Samba] Problem in changing Samba passwd

[Keith Fernandez]

I think ur password is less than 8 characters.
I reproduced the error when I put it less than 8 characters for my new
password.

Regards,
Keith
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thushani Weerasinghe" <thushani_a_w at yahoo.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:02 PM
Subject: [Samba] Problem in changing Samba passwd


>
> 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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