Solved, sort of. It turns out that smbpasswd when run as root does not run the script, but when a user runs smbpasswd, the script is executed. Workaround for root: 'smbpasswd -r localhost username' So there has been some weird change between FC1 and FC2 but nothing I have to worry about here. David On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:39:58PM +0200, David Jansen wrote: > We have a setup here with a LDAP server (FC1) which also runs samba. > Usernames, passwords (and more) are stored in LDAP, and with samba, this > machine can also act as PDC for the windows machines in the network. > > A problem with such a setup is to keep passwords synchronized between > unix and windows. We had a working setup to change passwords through > samba so changing a password from windows, or from Linux with smbpasswd > changed the unix passwrod, LM-hash and NT-hash in the LDAP database. > > Samba with LDAP as password backend seems to change only the windows > password hashes, so for changing the unix password, we had a script > which was called through the 'passwd program' and 'passwd chat' option > in smb.conf . A bit of a hack, but it worked. > > ... until this setup was moved to a new machine on which FC2 was > installed. Now the passwd program script is never called any more, so > unix passwords are no longer being changed. > To find out what went wrong, we upgraded the FC1 machine to the latest > samba version (3.0.6-2.FC1) and now it exhibits the same behaviour: no > password script or program is executed when a user changes his password. > > Does anyone know if something related to this behaviour was changed in > the latest samba release? The release notes mention nothing that looks > related. > > Or: does anyone know of another good way to make it possible to change > all passwords of a user at once so a user will always have only one > password?
