On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 10:04 +0100, Bob Latham wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Using Fedora8. > > I find some users I create have no problem having their smb passwords > changed using smbpasswd. Others simply don't work and I get the error > message "Failed to modify password entry for user <whatever>". > > What are the possible causes for this, and could you point me at a method > of fixing it please? > > I remember from a fiddle I had with Linux some years ago that I used to > have to copy the OS user passwords to SMB passwords using a method like > this... > > cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd > > Is this procedure still required? ---- No way...and I don't recall when that ever would have worked. users changing their password from command line smbpasswd, I've never seen that fail. It makes no sense that it would fail. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
