-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Thorsten D. Marsen wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > > The smbpasswd utilitiy only changes the password in /etc/samba/smbpasswd. > > > It does NOT use PAM at all. > > > > > > The system tool 'passwd' (/bin/passwd or /usr/bin/passwd) will use PAM. > > > Whatever you configure PAM to do it will follow. > > > > > > Firstly, pam_smbpass.so does NOT do unix system password changing! It can > > > be added to your PAM configuration to update the /etc/samba/smbpasswd > > > file. > > > > In the case LDAP is configured, smbpasswd will change the lm/ntPassword > > Fields in the Samba Schemata instead of /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Do you know if > > pam_smbpass.so also regognizes this configuration? > > No. pam_smbpass.so is a PAM module that directly acts on the > /etc/samba/smbpasswd file. No John. Thorsten is right. If compiled with --with-ldapsam, pam_smbpass.so will change the lm/nt password atribute in an LDAP directory. The reason is that pam_smbpass uses the pdb interface for updating account information. cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "You can never go home again, Oatman, but I guess you can shop there." --John Cusack - "Grosse Point Blank" (1997) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+Pr+wIR7qMdg1EfYRAkoBAJ9GP2lsT6ibiNOyO4zz30ptJ74B9wCglHf9 aDnBlokdcRurjMAXciFrAbo= =8zwK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba