[Samba] Unix Password Sync

Bo Kersey bo at vircio.com
Mon Mar 31 14:45:42 MDT 2014


With a little more searching, I found....

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 21:22 +0200, Dr. Michael Cinti wrote: 
> is there anyone who can explain me how to use "passwd program" in samba4 

The Samba 4.0 AD DC does not use this parameter currently. 

You can use tools like pam_winbind to have PAM-based programs 
authenticate against Samba however, or ask them to authenticate against 
LDAP. 

Sorry, 

Andrew Bartlett 

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org


So, I guess the answer is no.


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bo Kersey" <bo at vircio.com>
> To: "samba" <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 3:05:19 PM
> Subject: [Samba] Unix Password Sync
> 
> Does unix password sync still work in Samba 4.1.6?
> 
> I'm trying to debug setting passwords on a system...  I have this in smb.conf
> 
>         passdb backend = samba_dsdb
>         passwd program = /usr/local/sbin/passtest.sh %u
>         passwd chat = *password* %n\n
>         passwd chat debug = Yes
>         unix password sync = Yes
> 
> 
> My passtest.sh script is very simple...
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> set -e
> 
> user=$1
> 
> echo "enter password"
> read pass
> 
> echo "$user:$pass" >> /tmp/passtest
> 
> It seems that when passwords are changed, this script is never executed.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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