Re: Password changing for samba

[Edward Dekkers <edward tripled iinet net au>]

senthil wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running SMB as pdc in my network. Can anyone please tell me how to
> enable users to change the passwords for their samba account?. ( normal
> ctl+alt+del then newpassword is some how not working). Along with smb as pdc
> i am running NIS also. I know that using yppasswd users can change their
> password to the login. How to make this change common for both samba and
> nis. can any please let me know ? actually the users shuttle between windoze
> and linux boxes with the same user name.

If the password is to be the same for both Linux and Windows you need to 
set up password synchronization. If you just want them to be able to do 
it for Windows, you'll need to write a small script to integrate into samba.

Plenty of docs on the net with examples - haven't got a link handy, but 
only took one google search.

Regards,
Ed.