[Samba] Users can not change samba password

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 01:18, soroush wrote:
> Following is permissions assigned to smbpasswd:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     system   smbpasswd
> 
> Following is what occurs when root attempts to change a user's password:
> 
> # smbpasswd test
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> Password changed for user test
> Following is what occurs when the user attempts to change their own
> password:
> 
> system> whoami
> test
> system> ./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 mickey
> 
> User can access unix system via Samba when password is changed by root but 
> cannot consistently change their own password (even after root changes it
> for 
> them).
> 
> Appreciate any assistance on how to allow users to change their own Samba 
> passwords.
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I had that problem - it was the passwd chat.

Craig