>On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:02 , Kopmann, Goetz <Goetz.Kopmann@airbus.com>sent: Arrrgllll. This is what the spammer loves ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^>>Hi Sean, >> >>> smbpasswd >>> Old SMB password: >>> New SMB password: >>> Retype new SMB password: >>> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The >>> specified password is invalid. >>> Failed to change password for testuser >> >>We have exactly the same problem with Samba v2.2.8a. We found out thatthe>>password change process works if you set "unix password sync = no". But >>that's not a good solution fo us. Users should be able to log in to Linux >>with the same password.>no one seems to like our solution, but we turned off _all_ windows->linuxlinux->windows password changes from the windows/linux session>and just made a web page that sets both - it takes a lot of crap out ofthe equation and also lets us sync our email and web passwords at the>same time - just a thoughtThis sounds good. Can we get more infos ? G?tz
Jason C. Waters
2004-Jun-17 13:26 UTC
AW: AW: [Samba] Password change problem, Samba 3.0.4
I havn't read the entire thread but what about using LDAP as a backend? Kopmann, Goetz wrote:> > >>On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:02 , Kopmann, Goetz <Goetz.Kopmann@airbus.com> >> >> >sent: > >Arrrgllll. This is what the spammer loves ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > >>>Hi Sean, >>> >>> >>> >>>>smbpasswd >>>>Old SMB password: >>>>New SMB password: >>>>Retype new SMB password: >>>>machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The >>>>specified password is invalid. >>>>Failed to change password for testuser >>>> >>>> >>>We have exactly the same problem with Samba v2.2.8a. We found out that >>> >>> >the > > >>>password change process works if you set "unix password sync = no". But >>>that's not a good solution fo us. Users should be able to log in to Linux >>>with the same password. >>> >>> > > > >>no one seems to like our solution, but we turned off _all_ windows->linux >> >> >linux->windows password changes from the windows/linux session > > >>and just made a web page that sets both - it takes a lot of crap out of >> >> >the equation and also lets us sync our email and web passwords at the > > >>same time - just a thought >> >> > > >This sounds good. Can we get more infos ? > >G?tz > >