[Samba] Making Samba change the Unix Password (/etc/shadow)

[Rubin Bennett]

Did you restart samba (/etc/init.d/smb restart)?

You need to at least do a reload (/etc/init.d/smb reload) for config
file changes to be read.

Rubin

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:09 +0900, Michael Heydon wrote:
> Parag Kalra wrote:
> > Hi Rubin,
> >
> > I made the changes suggested by you but still its not working.
> >
> > --
> > Parag Kalra
> >
> > On Feb 5, 2008 3:29 AM, Rubin Bennett <rbennett at thatitguy.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 02:26 +0530, Parag Kalra wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to change the linux login password through the smbpasswd
> >>> command by placing following  parameters in smb.conf file:
> >>>
> >>> unix password sync = Yes
> >>> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> >>> passwd chat = "*enter old password*" %o\\n "*Enter NEW password*"
> >>> %n\\n "*reenter New passwd*" %n\\n "*password changed*"
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> testparm is your friend :)  It should complain about the passwd command,
> >> and for good reason; it shouldn't be there.  Use:
> >> pam password change = yes
> >> instead, and get rid of the passwd program and passwd chat lines.
> >>
> >>     
> PAM is far from universal, there are plenty of OSes and distros that do 
> not include PAM. The man page doesn't say anything about passwd program 
> being depreciated, why would testparm complain about it?
> 
> Are you getting anything in the logs when trying to reset the password? 
> Have you tried enabling passwd chat debug (you may have to up your log 
> level as well)? If you want to keep using passwd instead of PAM, could 
> you write a wrapper/replacement for passwd that logs everything that 
> happens?
> >> HTH,
> >> Rubin
> >>
> >>     
> >   
> 
> *Michael Heydon - IT Administrator *
> michaelh at jaswin.com.au <mailto:michaelh at jaswin.com.au>
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