I thought that I would post this and see what others think. I wanted a way to authenticate mail users with pass through auth to a win2k box, so I don't have to add accounts on our mail server, just the 2k box. But the problem is a way for them to change their password off-site. So I've been trying to get poppassd (1.8.4 - current) to work with the pam_winbind.so module with very limited success the last couple of days. So I started digging into the actual source of the winbind module and the source for the poppassd daemon. I thought it might be the way the PAM module was dealing with AUTHTOK and OLDAUTHTOK, but I think I finally nailed it down. It seems that the poppassd's PAM conversation function is somewhat lacking. I've compared it to the way the standard linux 'passwd' utility does it and it's completely borked. (It's doing the auth part and not letting the conversation script do it) I wanted to run this by the group here (as there are lots of smart people here) and see if others agreed. If so (and I'm not just going nuts here) then I am thinking about rewriting the conversation function. This would allow people to do Windows Domain password changes via poppassd! (This would answer this question about password changing that has been asked a dozen or so times here).
Any thoughts are much appreciated! Mat Allgood -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba