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Re: Can not create user accounts or change passwords



On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:38:00PM +0100, Martin Kurz wrote:
> Hello,
> We use in our school Skolelinux 1.0, I have regularly updated the server
> with apt-get upgrade.
> Quite a long time everything works fine, we could create new users, change
> passwords (with webmin and the  "Skolelinux User administration").
> No I can not create an user account. The error message is:
> --
> <p>Failed to update ldap admin passwd in samba.<br>This function is turned
> off for security reasons.</p><p>Please set the password for your samba
> -'ldap admin dn' via 'smbpasswd -w yourpassword'"</p>
> 
> Error; User account not created
> --

You need to have debian-edu-config version 0.394-1.desa2004021 or later
and you should have samba 3.0.10-0.backports.1 (THis is taken from
memory, as I dont have this on my laptop here now). 


The problems comes because samba expect a new schema for samba. The
schema is there if you have added the updated debian-edu-config, but we
have not enforced a restart of the ldap server. restarting the ldap
server should solve the problem. 

It may also be necesarry to update some index file, but I dont think
so.I would have to investigate if this is needed, But I dont think I
needed this when I tested this last time. I will try to find time to
test this at a later point. 

> The package education-main-server has the Version number
> 0.764.skolelinux.156,
> The package slapd the version 2.0.27.skolelinux.6
> 
> What can I do? I have tried the following steps:
> 
> I have changed with ldapppasswd the smbadmin-account and changed with
> smbpasswd -w the Samba-Admin-Account:
> 
> ldappasswd -x -ZZ -D cn=admin,ou=people,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no \
> -W cn=smbadmin,ou=people,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
> 
> Then:
> smbpasswd -w [generated password]
> 
> The result: Nothing changed! The error message is the same.
> 
> My question is: what should I do now?
> I thought I can remove slapd and education-main-server and then reinstall
> it, but what configuration-files should I save?

Have you tried to restart slapd ? 
If not, please check that the line after 
 # Access to samba attributs
ends with: 
 .... sambaAcctFlags,sambaGroupType,sambaPasswordHistory
 
If not the I guess I have to look into this further.

-- 
Finn-Arne Johansen 
faj@bzz.no
http://bzz.no/



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