[Samba] Users cannot change their passwords

Rowland Penny
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:59:35 -0000

On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 20:49:07 +1200
Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2018-09-25 at 09:44 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:22:06 GMT
> > "Torin Woltjer" <torin.woltjer at granddial.com>
wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the quick reply, I believe I am using MIT based on log
> > > file names; but is there a better way to tell? I'm not very
> > > knowledgeable about the distinction between MIT and Heimdal
> > > regarding
> > > KDC. Can you direct me to a resource that explains how to make
the
> > > switch as I am just using the  defaults in SUSE. Additionally,
> > > many of the domains experiencing this bug were working fine;
> > > before migrating them from Ubuntu 16.04. Is this because the bug
> > > was introduced in a newer version that I am now using? Is the bug
> > > fixed in a version newer than what I am using now?
> > >
> > > Thanks again, I appreciate the help.
> > >
> > > Torin Woltjer
> > >
> > > Grand Dial Communications - A ZK Tech Inc. Company
> > >
> > > 616.776.1066 ext. 2006
> > > www.granddial.com
> > >
> > >
> > Took some finding, but I am now very sure that the opensuse Samba AD
> > DC
> > uses MIT instead of Heimdal, so this makes it inadvisable to use in
> > production. There are just too many problems to make it usable, the
> > password problem being one of them.
> >
> > I am sorry, but, as far as I am aware, there is no RPM based distro
> > that has production ready Samba packages, I also have a feeling that
> > the Ubuntu packages now use MIT, so this really just leaves Debian
> > etc.
>
> I've not seen any indication that Ubuntu has changed to MIT Kerberos,
> thankfully.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>

I thought I had seen it somewhere, but I bow to your superior knowledge.

Rowland