On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: > -----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.
Gerry, Thanks for clearing that up. I should have checked the code more carefully. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
