[Samba] Samba4 changing a user's password from linux workstation

Julien TEHERY julien.tehery at openevents.fr
Tue May 14 06:32:50 UTC 2019


Le 13/05/2019 à 18:44, Rowland penny via samba a écrit :
> On 13/05/2019 16:11, Julien TEHERY via samba wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to find a way to change user passwords from ubuntu client 
>> workstation on a samba4 domain.
>> I tried in CLI from the client workstation (ubuntu 14.04) with:
>>
>> - smbpasswd -U $user
>>
>> => In this case, password seemed to be updated, but "wbinfo -a" 
>> didn't worked with the new password, the old one was still active.
>>
>> - samba-tool user setpassword $user
>> => In this case i got a "ldb_search: /invalid basedn '(null)'/"
>>
>>
>> What's the proper way to change the users password from the linux 
>> clients in a samba4 domain?
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
> What sort of Samba domain, NT4-style or AD
>
> Rowland
We use AD style




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