[Samba] users can't set smbpasswd, root can

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:

> jht at frodo:~> smbpasswd -r frodo jht
> Old SMB password:
> machine frodo rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The
> specified password is invalid.
> Failed to change password for jht
> 
> The password change works fine if I do it as root.

The syntax is

	smbpasswd -r frodo -U jht

unless you are trying to change your password to the string "jht"



cheers, jerry
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