Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

[Immanuel Yap <noelyap@ascus.cit.cornell.edu>]

On Tue Aug 17, 1999, Debian Mail wrote:
> > > I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a
> > > faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to
> > > authenticate a user. How do I do that?
> > 
> > You can't.
> 
> So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every time he wants to
> change his password?

Not necessarily.  You don't have to use the same password for login
and for samba.  (Indeed, one could argue that this is a Good Thing.)

Noel