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

[Parag Kalra]

Yes I have restarted smb but still no fruits.

Also placing "passwd chat debug = yes" didn't generate any log in
/var/log/samba/smd.log

Could anyone please explain the following:

[If you want to keep using passwd instead of PAM, could you write a
wrapper/replacement for passwd that logs everything that happens?]

--
Parag Kalra

On Feb 5, 2008 5:11 AM, Rubin Bennett <rbennett at thatitguy.com> wrote:

> 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>
> --
> Rubin Bennett
> RB Technologies
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>
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>
>
>


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PARAG . A . KALRA

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