[Samba] Re: Password change

[Craig White]

Not an answer to the question.

The question was some user wants to change their password from Linux
command line program 'passwd'  Configuration within smb.conf is not
material in this instance.

Craig

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:33 -0800, timothy johnson wrote:
> actually the way I fixed it was in smb.conf
> 
> ldap passwd sync = yes
> 
> and since I am using pam on my linux boxes it works
> 
> On 11/2/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 10:29 -0200, Cleber P. de Souza wrote:
>         > As Craig told, maybe you forgot the ldap admin account.
>         > I have another question about this.
>         > And if I want that an user change him/her account in a linux
>         desktop 
>         > using passwd, how can I set up the linux so that the samba
>         password
>         > shall be sync too?
>         >
>         > Any idea?
>         ----
>         you would have to alias the 'passwd' command to run an
>         entirely
>         different script/program which is capable of changing
>         multiple 
>         attributes on your LDAP DSA or aliased over to smbpasswd
>         (yikes!).
>         
>         That is not entirely practical but certainly possible - if I
>         recall
>         correctly, there was some mkntpasswd program that was shipped
>         by
>         openldap some time back but I don't know if it is still
>         included. 
>         
>         Craig
>         
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