On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:26:16PM -0600, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Munir Nassar wrote: > > > Come to think of it, there an option in samba to sync with unix > > passwords, > > try adding something like to your smb.conf and see what happens: > > unix password sync = yes > > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd > > > > -munir > > AFAIK, this is for operating samba as a domain controller, and only works > when you change your password through windows. If you update your unix > password, your samba password isn't updated. Correct. The best way to go about synchronizing passwords is to write your own password wrapper program, something that will update both the SAMBA and UNIX password files. I believe there is some progress with using an LDAP server for Authentication as well. I will be looking into this soon. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011113/870efef4/attachment.pgp