[Samba] Samba / Ldap / Unix / Sendmail passwords when changing via windows client.

[Neil Marjoram]

I have just installed RHEL 4 with Samba 3.0.10 and samba tools 0.9.1.1. 
All works very well until a user changes the password using a windows 
client.

All the correct changes occur in ldap and everything looks fine, the 
user can login with the new password to windows and unix, the problem is 
they can no longer send mail via smtp-auth. It seems that sendmail does 
not accept the new hash method used to encrypt the new unix password by 
samba (smd5). If you use the smbldap-passwd script to change the 
password again on the command line the password changes back to md5crypt 
and all is well again.

I read that samba encrypts the new password in the same manner as the 
old password, but this does not seem to be the case.

Is there anyway of forcing samba to encrypt the password in a set manner?

Many thanks,

Neil.

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Neil Marjoram
Adastral Park Campus
University College London
Ross Building
Adastral Park
Martlesham Heath
Ipswich - Suffolk
IP5 3RE

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