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Re: Change password in Samba and ldap



Hi,

Klaus Ade Johnstad schrieb:
> Onsdag 6. mai 2009 20:48, skrev Philipp Huebner:
>> The point is, if users change their password on workstations /
>> thinclients using passwd, it only chages the unix password, not the
>> samba password.
>> So if a student changes his password using 'passwd' on a terminal, he
>> still needs his old password for a Windows Machine joined in the
>> skolelinux domain.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> --
>> Philipp Hübner
> 
>> Geschäftsführung: Dr. Michael Meskes, Jörg Folz
> 
> Which is exactly why the student should use the shorcut on their 
> Desktop, which should point to something like 
> https://ldap/lwat/chguserpw.php?username=$(id -un), on windows they 
> have to manually put in their username. 
> 
> Using lwat to change their password, ensures that linux(userPassword) 
> and samba(sabmaNTPassword and smbaLMPassword) passwords are the same.
> 
> passwd only changes linux(userPassword), I have never looked into why 
> that is, and fixing it would still mean that the users would have to 
> use a different way to change passwords from within windows, better to 
> use lwat, that works from everywhere.
Thanks for clarifying, so we should discourage use of *passwd by users.

Regards,
-- 
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