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

[John H Terpstra]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:
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> > 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
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> > The password change works fine if I do it as root.
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> The syntax is
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> 	smbpasswd -r frodo -U jht
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> unless you are trying to change your password to the string "jht"

Maybe, but on my system this gives:

jht at frodo:~> smbpasswd -r frodo -U jht
Old SMB password:
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
machine frodo rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The
specified password is invalid.
Failed to change password for jht

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