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Re: passwd and smbpasswd sync



On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 02:11:44PM +1100, Chris Leishman wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there was an easy way to maintain a sync between the passwd
> file and the smbpasswd file?  I have set "unix password sync" so that when
> smbpasswd is run, the unix password is sync'd, but when the unix "passwd"
> program is run, they get all out of kilter..
>
> Does there happen to be a mod of either the passwd program or of pam that
> will do this?  IMHO this would be _extremely_ useful....

You should be able to get pam-apps (potato) and stack the modules for
the passwd program, I don't know if the samba package comes with it's
own pam module, but there is one available somewhere (this is needed
for passwd to be aware of the smb passwords).

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