On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Helmut Hullen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hallo, John, > > Du meintest am 20.01.12: > > > root@hayek:~# smbpasswd john > > New SMB password: > > Retype new SMB password: > > Failed to find entry for user john. > > > This is despite the existence of the user > > root@hayek:~# cat /etc/samba/smbpasswd > > # > > # SMB password file. > > # > > nobody:65534:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > > XXXXXXXXX:[U ]:LCT-00000000:nobody > > john:1000:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > > XXXXXX:[U ]:LCT-00000000:John Tate,,, > > Tells > > pdbedit -Lw -u john > > the same contents? > And - please - don't show this contents (at least the unchanged > contents); it's very simple to restore the original password from this > contents. > > Additional (related to Volkers answer): what tells > > testparm -sv 2>/dev/null | grep backend > > root@hayek:~# testparm -sv 2>/dev/null | grep backend > passdb backend = tdbsam > idmap backend = tdb > idmap config * : backend = tdb > > Yeah I'm using a different backend to what I thought. I've actually not configured samba on Linux in a long time. Some things have changed it seems I'll just have to catch up on the docs. I know what area I'm wrong in now so thanks. > Viele Gruesse! > Helmut > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- www.johntate.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
