[Samba] Windows 7 User can't change password

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri May 31 18:58:55 UTC 2019


On 31/05/2019 19:47, Luke Barone wrote:
> When I grep for the username, syslog shows no results, and auth.log 
> shows:
> May 31 09:52:35 SERVERNAME passwd[27085]: pam_unix(passwd:chauthtok): 
> password changed for USERNAME
>
> ... which is when I manually ran "passwd USERNAME" and "smbpasswd 
> USERNAME" on the console.

Hmm, you have 'pam password change = Yes' which means it is PAM that is 
doing the password change, so you need to debug this, you could also try 
commenting that line out and see if Samba can change the password.

Rowland





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