[Samba] win password sync works, smbpasswd fails

[Stefan Froehlich]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:20:10AM +0200, Stefan Froehlich wrote:
> When I try to assign a new password via smbpasswd (or create a new
> user, which causes the real problem), /etc/shadow is updated properly
> (unix logins are possible), but users CANNOT login with windows
> anymore (though the timestamp of passdb.tdb is updated, so smbpasswd
> DOES something there).

Perhaps I'll supply an experiment do illustrate this:

|unix login works with password foo
|windows login works with password foo
|
|herkules:~# pdbedit -L -w sfroehli
|[returns hash value FOO]
|
|Changing password from within windows to bar
|
|herkules:~# pdbedit -L -w sfroehli
|[returns hash value BAR]
|
|unix login works with password bar
|windows login works with password bar
|
|herkules:~# smbpasswd sfroehli
|[assign password foo]
|herkules:~# pdbedit -L -w sfroehli
|[returns hash value FOO]
|
|unix login works with foo
|windows login does NOT work (neither with foo nor with bar)
|
|herkules:~# smbpasswd sfroehli
|[assign password bar]
|herkules:~# pdbedit -L -w sfroehli
|[returns hash value BAR]
|
|unix login works with password bar
|windows login works with password bar
|
|Changing password from within windows to foo
|
|herkules:~# pdbedit -L -w sfroehli
|[returns hash value FOO]
|
|unix login works with password foo
|windows login works with password foo

I think this covers all possible transitions - and still completely
puzzles me.

Bye,
Stefan