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Re: Samba and /etc/passwd



I also run NIS, and whenever I change passwords (with yppasswd), the
password changes for both.

debian@sos.ethz.ch (Debian Mail) writes:

> > You can sync them, so that users can use the windows dialog to change
> > the samba and unix password. See the comments im smb.conf about
> > password sync.
> 
> What windows dialog do you mean?
> 
> Anyway, I set unix password sync = true and tried to change passwords
> using smbpasswd. But I always get
> 
> smbpasswd: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : The specified password is invalid.
> 
> Any ideas what could be wrong?
> 
> Stef
> 
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