samba - Nov 2002 - pam password change = yes

What is the significance of having pam password change = yes in the smb.conf
I have pam password change = yes and also passwd chat = ......... option 
set....
Do I need both or one....

Please advice!!!

Thanks

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 11:48, Gurnish Anand wrote:
> What is the significance of having pam password change = yes in the
smb.conf
> I have pam password change = yes and also passwd chat = ......... option 
> set....
> Do I need both or one....
I think you only need one.
if you want samba to do update all the password stuff (like the ldap
passwd etc) then use the pam passwd change.

if you just want to sync the unix password the passwd chat stuff is
easier to debug.

brad

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 03:48, Gurnish Anand wrote:
> What is the significance of having pam password change = yes in the
smb.conf
> I have pam password change = yes and also passwd chat = ......... option 
> set....
> Do I need both or one....
OK, the way it works is this:

When 'pam password change' is set, it uses PAM rather than 'passwd
program' to do the change.  This is easier to debug, and gives us back
sensible error returns.  

However, PAM doesn't have a changepass(user, newpass) interface, you
have to respond to a series of prompt in the same way a user would.

This is what the 'passwd chat' is about, but in my experience the
default actually works.  

Andrew Bartlett  

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