On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 22:57, David Jansen wrote: > 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 This is good info, but I can't figure out why smbpasswd doesn't want to run as root. How do you add a new user then? I don't use ldap as a backend, and I have to use smbpasswd -a newuser > ' > > 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? -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 09:37:35 up 10:46, 2 users, load average: 0.78, 1.52, 1.28
