[Samba] passwd chat debug

Vizitiu, Ciprian CVizitiu at gbif.org
Mon Jul 14 12:36:44 GMT 2003


> Would you believe me if I say I didn't find anything similar 
> to what you showed me?
> 

You mean you "grep expect /var/log/samba/*" and you and you end up empty
handed? Woops! :-| 

I do believe you but is sounds very strange... This was the limit of my
trouble with the password change in samba. After many restarts I've got a
chat sequence that worked. Yet I say that the sollution should be deduced
from the logs...

Some gurus should step in and enlighten us... :-)

> I try to change passwd from a W2k Workstation and it says I'm 
> not allowed to change passwd...
> 
> And I still can't log in from a Win NT 4 Workstation... :(((

So don't start from W2K, start from linux login on the samba server; can you
change it from bash prompt as that user or not?! If you set unix password
change = no you should be able to do smbpasswd username and "basta"! Ok, as
as a paranoia test do also a smbmount '\\mysambaserver\myshare'
/mnt/somewhere -o username=mysambaname and if it works it means the samba
infrastructure is OK nomatter what, it's got to be in W2K; or at least
AFAIK...

Why do you insist so much in keeping the UNIX pass in sync anyway? :-o

> 
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Vizitiu, Ciprian wrote:
> 
> >
> > 
> >> I'm trying to set up my "passwd chat", then I was adviced to use:
> >> 
> >> passwd chat debug = yes
> >> debug level = 103
> >> encryp passwords = no
> >> 
> >> But I can't find the "chat" inside log.smbd
> >> 
> >> What am I doing wrong?
> >
> >You're looking in the wrokg place... Look in the machine.log where 
> >"machine" is the smbname of the WS trying to change the password you 
> >should see something like this:
> >
> >[2003/07/14 16:08:24, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(329)
> >  setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 1
> >[2003/07/14 16:08:24, 3] smbd/chgpasswd.c:chat_with_program(430)
> >  Dochild for user zoko (uid=0,gid=0)
> >[2003/07/14 16:08:24, 10] smbd/chgpasswd.c:dochild(211)
> >  Invoking '/usr/bin/passwd zoko' as password change program. 
> >[2003/07/14 16:08:26, 100] smbd/chgpasswd.c:expect(265)
> >  expect: expected [*New*password*] received [Changing password for 
> >user zoko. New password: ] match no [2003/07/14 16:08:28, 100] 
> >smbd/chgpasswd.c:expect(265)
> >  expect: expected [*New*password*] received [] match no [2003/07/14 
> >16:08:28, 10] smbd/chgpasswd.c:expect(276)
> >  expect: returning False
> >[2003/07/14 16:08:28, 3] smbd/chgpasswd.c:talktochild(302)
> >  Response 1 incorrect
> >[2003/07/14 16:08:28, 3] smbd/chgpasswd.c:chat_with_program(363)
> >  Child failed to change password: zoko
> >[2003/07/14 16:08:28, 3] smbd/chgpasswd.c:chat_with_program(401)
> >  The process exited while we were waiting
> >
> >>From the above "dialog" it should be clear that samba is expecting 
> >>something
> >different than what it is receiving. Question is why * 
> doesn't really 
> >match like it says in the man page?! Anyway carefully 
> crafting the chat 
> >sequence you can overcome this "small issue"... ;-)
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