[Samba] Users cannot change their passwords

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2018-09-25 at 09:44 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:22:06 GMT
> "Torin Woltjer" <torin.woltjer at granddial.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick reply, I believe I am using MIT based on log
> > file names; but is there a better way to tell? I'm not very
> > knowledgeable about the distinction between MIT and Heimdal
> > regarding
> > KDC. Can you direct me to a resource that explains how to make the
> > switch as I am just using the  defaults in SUSE. Additionally, many
> > of the domains experiencing this bug were working fine; before
> > migrating them from Ubuntu 16.04. Is this because the bug was
> > introduced in a newer version that I am now using? Is the bug fixed
> > in a version newer than what I am using now?
> > 
> > Thanks again, I appreciate the help.
> > 
> > Torin Woltjer
> >  
> > Grand Dial Communications - A ZK Tech Inc. Company
> >  
> > 616.776.1066 ext. 2006
> > www.granddial.com
> > 
> > 
> Took some finding, but I am now very sure that the opensuse Samba AD
> DC
> uses MIT instead of Heimdal, so this makes it inadvisable to use in
> production. There are just too many problems to make it usable, the
> password problem being one of them.
> 
> I am sorry, but, as far as I am aware, there is no RPM based distro
> that has production ready Samba packages, I also have a feeling that
> the Ubuntu packages now use MIT, so this really just leaves Debian
> etc.

I've not seen any indication that Ubuntu has changed to MIT Kerberos,
thankfully.

Andrew Bartlett

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