samba - Nov 2003 - Change samba and Unix password from Windows 98

Hello.

I have a small network of Windows 98 machines and
a Linux machine running Samba 3.0.0, which is
working as a file and printer server, and PDC.

Is there the possibility of changing the samba
and Linux passwords of users from the client
machine (Windows 98) in a single operation,
without the user having to explicitly login
into the server for that.

Currently users in this network is told to
login into the server and change their
Linux password (with passwd command) and
their Samba password (with smbpaswd command).
I want an easier way of doing that.

Any clues?

Romildo

if you have a valid smb.conf
you can set passwords with usrmgr
and if you have synced with passwd this work also from client using
ctrl-alt-del on win2k

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <romildo@uber.com.br>
To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 10:31 AM
Subject: [Samba] Change samba and Unix password from Windows 98

> Hello.
>
> I have a small network of Windows 98 machines and
> a Linux machine running Samba 3.0.0, which is
> working as a file and printer server, and PDC.
>
> Is there the possibility of changing the samba
> and Linux passwords of users from the client
> machine (Windows 98) in a single operation,
> without the user having to explicitly login
> into the server for that.
>
> Currently users in this network is told to
> login into the server and change their
> Linux password (with passwd command) and
> their Samba password (with smbpaswd command).
> I want an easier way of doing that.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Romildo
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Romildo,

Yes. This is possible. There are several ways this can be done.
Check the man pages for smb.conf. In particular you should check the
guidance on the smb.conf paramters:

	passwd chat
	unix password sync
	passwd program
	obey pam restrictions

Also check out the documentation on the PAM module pam_smbpasswd.so

These will give you some insight into the controls you may use.
When you get this configured correctly a user will be able press
Ctrl-Alt-Del on a workstation to change their password globally.

Cheers,
John T.


On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 romildo@uber.com.br wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have a small network of Windows 98 machines and
> a Linux machine running Samba 3.0.0, which is
> working as a file and printer server, and PDC.
>
> Is there the possibility of changing the samba
> and Linux passwords of users from the client
> machine (Windows 98) in a single operation,
> without the user having to explicitly login
> into the server for that.
>
> Currently users in this network is told to
> login into the server and change their
> Linux password (with passwd command) and
> their Samba password (with smbpaswd command).
> I want an easier way of doing that.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Romildo
>
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org