AW: [Samba] Password change problem, Samba 3.0.4

Kopmann, Goetz Goetz.Kopmann at airbus.com
Thu Jun 17 10:02:20 GMT 2004


Hi Sean,

> smbpasswd
> Old SMB password:
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The
> specified password is invalid.
> Failed to change password for testuser

We have exactly the same problem with Samba v2.2.8a. We found out that the
password change process works if you set "unix password sync = no". But
that's not a good solution fo us. Users should be able to log in to Linux
with the same password. 

I hope there is another solution.

Götz



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