samba - Apr 2011 - Allow users to change active directory password!

Greetings,

How can one allow AD users to change their Samba 4 active directory password
on phpldapadmin? or if there are other tools? is there any work around. For
Samba 3 I saw on forums to add " *ldap password sync = yes*" into
smb.conf
file.

regards,


Yared Berhanu Woldegiorgis
?kern torgvei 92
N-0589 Oslo, Norway
tel. 004746263024
yaredbw at ifi.uio.no

I have Samba installed on Linux and brought up the SWAT.  This is on SLES 11 SP
1.

Should be easy.

I tried using the default "adduser" script (adduser.local).
I do see that I'm executing it.  (I put an "echo" in it.)
However, it seems to only get 1 parm, which is the user to add.

The script shows that it uses up to 4 parms:
username uid gid home

But no matter what I put in the SWAT Global options, the last 3 parms don't
seem to be populated.

Just to see if I was limited to 1 parm, I put the following in:

/usr/sbin/useradd.local %u %g %u %u

In the adduser.local, the echo line I put in is:
echo 'thdon' $1 $2 $3 $4 'thdoff'

What I got back when I was in the "Password" button, and did a
"Add New User" was:

thdon tom10 %g tom10 tom10 thdoff skip tests 2 Failed to add entry for user
tom10.

So, "thdon" is start of my echo.
tom10 is the user I'm trying to create.
%g was suppose to be a symbolic parm that I thought would be resolved by swat to
be the group this user should be in.
The other two "tom10" was just place holders to see that SWAT was
passing 4 parms to the script.
"thdoff" was the end of my echo.

The next echo in the script was:
echo 'skip tests 2'
which showed how far I got down in the script.

"Faild to add entry for user", I recognize as an error message that
comes from the smbpasswd command.  That command, nor the linux
"useradd" command are not part of this script.  I don't know
where, under the covers, I'm executing anything else.

So, my question is:
What parms are available in swat to pass thru to the "useradd" script?
%u seems to work.  But none of the others that are listed in the smb.conf
documentation.

I would rather have SWAT available rather than teach the administrator how to
use the line mode commands to add users.

Thanks

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting