On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 13:45, Anish Mathew wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any way to automatically update the samba > password when a user changes his unix account password > using the passwd command. Short Answer - Yes. > > I want samba to look in passwd file for > authentication. I dont want to create two accounts one > for local unix and then for the samba.
How to get passwd to sync both Linux and smbpasswd Update : Ow Mun Heng Date : Long Time Ago The pam_smbpass PAM module can be used to sync users' Samba passwords with their system passwords when the passwd command is used. If a user invokes the passwd command, the password he uses to log in to the Red Hat Linux system as well as the password he must provide to connect to a Samba share are changed. To enable this feature, add the following line to /etc/pam.d/system-auth below the pam_cracklib.so invocation: password required /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so nullok use_authtok try_first_pass This module is incorporated into the samba source/rpm package #%PAM-1.0 # This file is auto-generated. # User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run. auth required /lib/security/pam_env.so auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok auth required /lib/security/pam_deny.so account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 type= password required /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so nullok use_authtok try_first_pass password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow password required /lib/security/pam_deny.so session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so # less /usr/share/doc/samba-2.2.7/docs/pam_smbpass/README -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:06:56 up 4:56, 6 users, 0.47, 0.55, 0.25 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba