similar to: Samba, pam, NIS and password changes

In my syslog I get many of these types of errors: ypserv [4818]: refused connect from 127.0.0.1:57124 to procedure ypproc_match [domain.com,passwd.adjunct.byname;-1) Any idea what this error is? TIA

I installed samba-3.0.28-0 I set "maximum password age". pierluigim password has expired and so he would like to change it from XP prof client, but he receives this message: "Lacking permission to change the password". The global configuration of my smb.conf is: ------------------- [global] name resolve order = wins bcast hosts ldap ssl = No passwd chat = *New*Password*

I have 6 domain controllers that were running samba-tng using openldap, Six months ago I converted one of the controllers to Samba3.0.20 and exported my ldap information to be compatible with Samba, every works fine. Specifically I could change passwords at the local windows machine. Two weeks ago I converted my other 5 controllers to Samba3.0.21b everything works except changing passwords at

Hi everybody! I am having an issue regarding my samba/pam configuration. I am trying to sync my unix/samba passwords, but everything i found online doesn't help. My System runs Gentoo/Samba 3.5.8 as PDC(roaming profiles host and so on) , and WinXP Clients. Domainjoin and Login work fine. But I want to change the Passwords from the Windows interface. When I try to change the password using

Hi, I recently migrated to a Samba3x domain. One issue that has been reported to me is that XP users cannot change their password from their PC. I have done some searching and I haven't seen a straight forward answer to this. My config is ldap primary + Samba PDC on host A ldap slave + samba BDC on host B I see this error in the machine log when someone attempts to change their password:

Hi, When I try to change my Password with XP's Password-Change-Box, I get the following error in log.smbd: [2004/03/21 11:16:06, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_chauthtok(709) PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (19) for User: testuser [2004/03/21 11:16:06, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passchange(865) smb_pam_passchange: PAM: Password Change Failed for user testuser! From my smb.conf: # PDC

Hello, I have setup a Samba server with CentOS 5.2 and Samba 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1 (the CentOS included versi?n). I have configured Samba as a PDC following "Samba-3 by example" chapter 3, "Secure Office Networking". No DNS or DHCP active, as far as for now this is just a test environment. Most of it works fine, but trying to change user passwords for a MS-Windows test computer

I having been trouble by this for a few days now and was wondering if anyone else has had any luck with this? I am currently running Samba 2.2.6pre2 on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE I have successfully set up samba to be the PDC I am unsuccessfully trying to change the passwords on the W2k box and I am recieving the error that the user name/password are incorrect make sure the caps lock is not on. When I

what is the 'passwd chat' line for Samba 2.2.3a-12.3 on Debian Woody that enables password synchronisation with Windows 2000 clients in a domain? I currently have this in smb.conf but it doesn't work: unix password sync = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n I get the Windows message

Hello, I just wasted several hours trying to figure out why I could not change Samba passwords from Windows XP computers. I'm posting here so that there is some form of documentation about this on the web. My setup is basically this: - Samba 3.3.2 (running under Ubuntu 9.04) - OpenLDAP user database - Full O.S. support for OpenLDAP auth, using nsswitch and PAM. (My client

I've just found out today that my system won't let users (2000 and XP clients) change their passwords. >From their consoles they get permission denied messages. Looking at the logs its clearly a Samba/PAM interaction issue but all looks OK in the pam.d directory. I've spent a few hours searching online but can't find anything that match's this scenario. Extract from users

Hi there guys. I've been able to set up a samba domain as a PDC using tdbsam profiles seems to work fine, users can login to the domain and so on. The problem that I found is that I do not know how to set it up to allow users to change their password from the Windows Boxes. The get, you have not permission to change you password. Allow me to post my configurtation and some loggin.. With

Hi!! I'm not able to change a user password on a workstation and with smbpasswd when I'm log. ex: [usertest@pc070 usertest]$ 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 usertest so when I'm root, that's work The log

We are currently running CentOS 4.5 on older Dell Systems. We are upgrading to Dell PowerEdge 1950 with a PERC 6/i raid controller. CentOS 4.5 installation does not see the PERC 6/i controller. Dell and LSI Logic only support RHEL 4U6 and higher and SuSe. I've tried building the boot images with the new driver for installation but kickstart still doesn't see the raid controller.

Hi, I have problem with client password chat with Samba (3.0.24) PDC on Suse after updating OS to service pack 1. The problem prevents client from changing own password in Windows, plus other things to do with password, like adding user with Windows User manager. Samba password is to be synced with unix password in my configuration. Following errors are found in log.smbd when trying to add

We have Samba authenticating to ldap and we want our users to be able to change their Samba password from their Windows 98 computers. We see this when we try to change passwords from Windows 98 machines now: Apr 22 15:34:26 localhost smbd[19796]: [2003/04/22 15:34:26.550425, 0, pid=19796, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0)] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldap_connect_system(316) Apr 22 15:34:26 localhost

I have a samba pdc running 3.0.4. I have users logging into the profile server and wanting to change there password. However when they try to change the password it asks them for the old and new password but says they do not have permission to change the password. I can change the password for them when I log into the pdc as root but when I try to do it as user it gives the error: machine

Salim, Yes I do have permission to run the passwd command as a local user, I can change the unix password just fine. It is when I do the smbpasswd command that that error comes up. Thanks for looking at this! Tony --- Salim Zakharia <Salim@mdsuae.ae> wrote: > Try to check if users have permission to run: > /usr/bin/passwd let user > try to change his password locally on

First of all, thanks a lot to John H Terpstra for his kind and useful help. The problem was something quite simple, the password chat. It really needs asterisks even at the beginning of each line. For CentOS (Red-Hat), this works (notice the red asterisks): password chat = "*New*password*" %n\n "*Retype*password*" %n\n "*updated*successfully*" This does not:

Hello everyone, I've got the following situation: We have parent domain X and child domain Y. We're decommissioning domain Y. We're currently busy with dual domain authorization so users from both domain X and domain Y can log in and browse the shares. However, for some reason when I change the workgroup and realm to domain X and set the pam_ldap.conf and libnss-ldap.conf to both