Brian Cowan wrote:
Hi All,
I have a Samba system I fire up once in a blue moon for testing, and
had a bit of a minor heart attack when it "suddenly" stopped letting
me access shares as anyone other than root. Security is set to "user"
since it's not a domain member server. My office requires that
passwords get changed every 90 days, and the last time I accessed the
server was on the other side of one of these "90-day" boundries. I
realized this after I increased the Samba logging level and it was
telling me it at least recognized my username. So, it must of hated my
password. I used smbpasswd -U as root to reset my user password.
Suddenly I can get in.
Now, one small question, is there a tool that lets me automatically
sync my samba password with the password on the same Unix box? Or am I
doomed to have to change it manually every 90 days as well. (It's only
one more place to change my password...)
Thanks,
Brian
PAM can sync the passwords. The setting is 'pam password change = Yes'.
From man 5 smb.conf:
"With the addition of better PAM support in Samba 2.2, this parameter,
it is possible to use PAM's password change control flag for Samba. If
enabled, then PAM will be used for password changes when requested by an
SMB client instead of the program listed in passwd program. It should be
possible to enable this without changing your passwd chat parameter for
most setups."
Another way is to use webmin and it's user and samba modules; there's an
option to sync users and passwords between the two, but it means that
you'll have to keep using it for user management.
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