[Samba] unsupported nsswitch entry

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Apr 4 15:19:51 GMT 2007


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Collen Blijenberg wrote:
> isn't password change done through PAM, not nsswitch ????

The Solaris passwd command is a bit borken in my experience.
I recommend using kpasswd for change AD domain user passwords.

>>> # passwd root
>>> passwd: Unsupported nsswitch entry for "passwd:". Use "-r repository ".
>>> Unexpected failure. Password file/table unchanged.
>> How do you get Solaris to recognize the winbind entry? I have
>> installed the winbind library.

IIRC, this has to be "passwd -r files root"






cheers, jerry
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