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Dear sir, I got some trouble to use smbpasswd with unix password sync. But I found some tricky to make it successfully. First you should chmod on /dev/pty??, it seems smbd wouldn't open it by root. I have changed 16 ptys to 666 (i.e. chmod 666 /dev/typa?), so it could be open by smbd. Second I found Samba have a bug with "passwd chat" handling. It would cut first double quote, so all setting would be incorrect format. You should use passwd chat = *Enter*NEW*password* %n\n *Reenter*NEW*password* %n\n \ *Password*Changed* to avoid us...

...grams" entry, so that the session manager sees a window appear and knows that the application has started, and run ssh in the background from that terminal. E.g. xterm -iconic +hold -e ssh -N -f ... The icon appears briefly, then vanishes when ssh has backgrounded itself. If you need to typa a password and gnome-askpass fails to put up a dialog, omit the -iconic option. Also, it's important that the priority of this startup item be set to a larger number than that of metacity and gnome-panel; I chose "45". Speaking of the session manager ... I have some applications th...