[Samba] Should smbpasswd change unix password too?

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Oscar Retana M. wrote:

> Hello.
>
> My unix password sync is working ok, thus when an user changes his
> password with "Ctrl+Alt+Del|Change Password" in Windows.
>
> However, if I run "smbpasswd" manually, I get two messages saying
> "password changed", but the unix password is not changed.
>
> :(
>
> Is this behaviour the right one?

Yes. The smbpasswd utility does not call out to the UNIX passwd utility.

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
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