AW: AW: [Samba] Password change problem, Samba 3.0.4

[Jason C. Waters]

I havn't read the entire thread but what about using LDAP as a backend? 

Kopmann, Goetz wrote:

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>>On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:02 , Kopmann, Goetz <Goetz.Kopmann at airbus.com>
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>Arrrgllll. This is what the spammer loves   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>>>Hi Sean,
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>>>>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
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>>>We have exactly the same problem with Samba v2.2.8a. We found out that
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>>>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. 
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>>no one seems to like our solution, but we turned off _all_ windows->linux
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>linux->windows password changes from the windows/linux session 
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>>and just made a web page that sets both - it takes a lot of crap out of
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>the equation and also lets us sync our email and web passwords at the 
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>>same time - just a thought
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>This sounds good. Can we get more infos ?
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>Götz
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