Hi Again, > it's fairly easy to keep the passwords in sync... > just set up samba to change the unix passwords with the "unix password > chat" stuff in smb.conf
Okay, I see that this stuff is defaulted to being configured when I testparm so that's cool... > use pam_smbpass to make pam update the samba password when the unix > password is updated. Ahhh.. How do I do this part? The docs seems to refer to a pam configuration file that I can't find in the same location. I'm using FreeBSD 4.7, but all the docs seems to assume Linux :( > you can script add the users with smbpasswd -a but they'll all have to > set their own passwords. Based on what you said above though, shouldn't I be able to port over the BSD master.passwd file (this works for the UNIX side of things) and then using pam_smbpass sync things up? There's a few hundred users... > you must have been using unencrypted passwords... yeah, back then we were using mostly 95 machines, so I went with plain text. > I strongly suggest using encrypted passwords but i think it is still > possible to use unencrypted passwords (and no smbpasswd) with 2.2.7 > I'm not sure about that, and I don't know how to do it. Yes, I'm using encrypted ones with the current configuration, and it works, except that I need to manually add users with the smbpasswd command right now. So, all I need is the details on syncing the UNIX passwd with SAMBA via pam_smbpass. I was really hoping to get the box installed today so that the students were using it tomorrow, but if I can't get this figured out, I'll be eating crow until I can. Any further help would be most appreciated. Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba