[Samba] Auitomatic Password synchronisation

Dave Coventry dgcoventry at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 14:21:34 MST 2009


Does anybody else have experience of this?

2009/12/15 Dave Coventry <dgcoventry at gmail.com>:
> 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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