[Samba] Password expired

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 09:33 +0100, Andrea Bencini wrote:
> I installed samba-3.0.28-0
> I set "maximum password age".
> pierluigim password has expired and so he would like to change it from XP 
> prof client, but he receives this message:
> "Lacking permission to change the password".
> and in my log.smb file I have:
> ----------------------
> [2007/12/20 19:02:10, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_chauthtok(691)
>   PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (19) for User: pierluigim
> [2007/12/20 19:02:10, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passchange(847)
>   smb_pam_passchange: PAM: Password Change Failed for user pierluigim!
> [2007/12/20 19:02:10, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_chauthtok(691)
>   PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (19) for User: pierluigim
> [2007/12/20 19:02:10, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passchange(847)
>   smb_pam_passchange: PAM: Password Change Failed for user pierluigim!
> [2007/12/20 19:02:10, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_chauthtok(691)
>   PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (19) for User: pierluigim
> [2007/12/20 19:02:10, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passchange(847)
>   smb_pam_passchange: PAM: Password Change Failed for user pierluigim!
> [2007/12/20 19:02:10, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_chauthtok(691)
>   PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (19) for User: pierluigim
> [2007/12/20 19:02:10, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passchange(847)
>   smb_pam_passchange: PAM: Password Change Failed for user pierluigim!
> ------------------------------
> Can you help me?

Looks like an issue with your PAM configuration.  Can the user change
their password via "passwd"?  Or perhaps you only want to change the
Samba SAM and not hit PAM?

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