[Samba] Changing passwd as ordinary user

Benilton de Sa Carvalho carvalho at ime.unicamp.br
Fri Jul 11 15:10:15 GMT 2003


>How about some details? As a wild guess, maybe your samba attempts to change
>*BOTH* the UNIX password and the samba password and if one fails the it is
>failure. For example if you're on RH, the default argument for doing this in
>smb.conf (that is for changing also the UNIX password) does not work. Try
>for example unix password sync = no in your smb.conf and see if it makes any
>difference...

Well, I'm running RH 9.
I used "unix password sync = no" and it made *THE* difference. I mean, it
worked.
Now the question is: how to solve the problem using "unix password sync =
yes"?
What's the correct argument for doing this in smb.conf, since I'm on RH?

Thank you very mcuh,

Regards,
Benilton




More information about the samba mailing list