[Samba] Automatic password syncronisation.

Dave Coventry dgcoventry at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 07:23:01 MST 2009


I have set up Samba on a Debian Lenny server. I have set up the users
by using 'adduser' and then using 'smbpassword -a username' to add the
users to the Samba users database.

The users have the same username on both their Windows Client and the
Samba server.

my smb.conf


   security = user

   username level 2

   encrypt passwords = true

   obey pam restrictions = yes

   unix password sync = yes

   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .

   pam password change = yes

I'm expecting the user to be prompted for his Windows password and for
this to be applied to smbpassword but the user is simply being refused
access.

What am I doing wrong?

Many Thanks,

Dave Coventry


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