Hello. Now that I'm able to change passwords at all ;), I'd like to implement password syncing with Samba.
Problem is, that we're using NIS for our Unix network. Right now I don't yet have an idea what I'd set for the passwd program. First, the program must be run on the NIS master. Fine. It must be able to change the users password without needing to know the old password when executed by root. That's where I'm having problems. I can set the 'passwd program = /bin/passwd -r files -F /etc/NISFILES/passwd %u', but that doesn't quite work the way I'd expect to. This changes the users password in the /etc/NISFILES/passwd file just fine, but after that I'd need to "cd /var/yp ; make passwd" which sometimes take quite long (60 seconds). It for sure takes WAY longer than when I/the user runs "passwd". What and how do you do to sync the Samba and NIS passwords? Using Samba 2.2.8a (HP CIFS Server A.01.10) on HP-UX 11.00. Upgrading to "pure" Samba 3.0.2a wouldn't be such big a problem. Thnaks, Alexander Skwar -- printk("CPU[%d]: Sending penguins to jail...",smp_processor_id()); 2.4.8 arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba