[Samba] Samba PDC...password question

Steve steve at fpig.net
Fri Oct 6 03:54:49 GMT 2006


On Wednesday 04 October 2006 1:20 pm, you wrote:
>       Cannot change password - "Permission denied" error
>
>
>       smbd/chgpasswd.c:findpty(73): findpty: Unable to create
>       master/slave pty pair
>
> Make sure that /dev/pts is mounted properly. This will vary depending on
> your server distribution

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the tip.  Apparently in Mandriva /dev/pts is mounted by udev on the 
fly.  Mandriva 2006 notes the following:
for udev-068-34mdk.i586
- remaining bug is lack of /dev/ptmx support in PAM
So apparently /dev/pty never gets created when /usr/bin/passwd gets called 
from samba.

Setting unix password sync = no enables windows users to change their password 
from windoze.  This is what we're going with now, as windoze users never log 
onto Linux boxen.

Steve
>
> Steve Glasser wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:59 -0600, Scott Mecham wrote:
> >> Actually, we have that set back to sync. It does work fine.
> >
> > Hey Scott,
> >
> > Thanks for writing back.
> >
> > What the bleep are we doing wrong?  We keep getting the message: "You do
> > not have permission to change your password"
> >
> > I thought that was an issue created by winXP sp1, which was fixed long
> > ago.  WTF?
> >
> > Steve

-- 
Steve Glasser
Network Administrator
Flying Pig Computer Svc.
steve at fpig.net


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