samba - Dec 2003 - last try: change NT password with samba tools?

Hello,
  last try: Is it possible to change the password
on a NT PDC with a Samba tool?

I want to bind to the PDC as administrator and set the
password of a normal user to a new value - without knowing
the old value.

I've asked this already but, unfortunately, got no answer
(http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-December/076170.html ,
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-December/076368.html
).

I'd really appreciate to get at least an
answer like "no, it's not possible".

Thanks in advance,  Jochen.

I believe it is possible. Try using winbind, and see if using the
command "passwd" will change it. I believe it will. Winbind appends
the
unix local user list with the domain user list, and fools the local
machine into thinking they are local users... but I'm not sure if you
can change something on the unix machine and have it automatically
change on the Windows server.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jochen Keutel [mailto:mlists@keutel.de]
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:12 AM
> To: Samba
> Subject: [Samba] last try: change NT password with samba tools?
> 
> Hello,
>   last try: Is it possible to change the password
> on a NT PDC with a Samba tool?
> 
> I want to bind to the PDC as administrator and set the
> password of a normal user to a new value - without knowing
> the old value.
> 
> I've asked this already but, unfortunately, got no answer
> (http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-December/076170.html ,
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-December/076368.html
> ).
> 
> I'd really appreciate to get at least an
> answer like "no, it's not possible".
> 
> Thanks in advance,  Jochen.
> 
> 
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Jochen Keutel wrote:
| Hello,
|   last try: Is it possible to change the password
| on a NT PDC with a Samba tool?
|
| I want to bind to the PDC as administrator and set the
| password of a normal user to a new value - without knowing
| the old value.
|
| I've asked this already but, unfortunately, got no answer
| (http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-December/076170.html ,
| http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2003-December/076368.html
| ).
|
| I'd really appreciate to get at least an
| answer like "no, it's not possible".

Yes it's possible although I don't think we have
an admin password tool coded up for general use.
(hint this is how we join an NT4 domain when we
have an admin name and password ...using the
samr_setuser() call)





cheers, jerry
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