Re: Password changing for samba

[Dimitrios Stergiou <dste intranet gr>]

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On Wednesday 30 April 2003 12:22, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> 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.

Normally what it takes is the followinf 3 lines in your smb.conf:
        encrypt passwords = Yes
        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
        unix password sync = Yes

this will enable password sync between the linux box and the samba password 
file (/etc/samba/smpasswd)

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Dimitrios Stergiou
System, Network and Security Administration Group
Intracom S.A

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