samba - Aug 2004 - smbpasswd error

Hi Samba people

I saw this as a problem in the archives about a month ago but no solution ?

I'm running samba 2.2.10 on Solaris 8.
We have a script to replace /usr/bin/passwd which changes the NIS passwd and 
then uses smbpasswd to change the user's smb password to the same thing.

Some users are getting :

NIS password changed for diane on cauchy
machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change :  Error was :  The
specified password was invalid.
Failed to change password for diane

and in the log file :

smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(832)
   check_oem_password: incorrect password length (1292521526).
[2004/08/03 10:12:51, 0] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_free_sam(210)
   pdb_free_sam: SAM_ACCOUNT was NULL

In all cases passwords are between 6 and 9 characters.

	Janet

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>
>smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(832)
>   check_oem_password: incorrect password length (1292521526).
>[2004/08/03 10:12:51, 0] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_free_sam(210)
>   pdb_free_sam: SAM_ACCOUNT was NULL
>

Hi there,

I had this problem too when trying to setup password
syncing.

I can't for the life of me remember what the solution was. Although
I'm pretty darn certain that it _isn't_ password length.

I did however write up my solution:-

	http://gensig.nibsc.ac.uk/~dmccann/

(there's something odd with out web servers at the moment, so if that
linkt doesn't work for you, please let me know and I'll get it fixed.)



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