Re: samba: cannot change password from Windws NT
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Debian Mail wrote:
> I setup samba as a PDC for Windows NT. It works. But when I want to
> change the password from the Win NT machine I get:
> The User name or old password is incorrect. Letters in...
> And in the smb logfile I get:
> smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(699)
> check_oem_password: incorrect password length (445298348).
>
> The same when I want to change the password using smbpasswd
> I didn't change the according lines in smb.conf. They read:
>
> unix password sync = true
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> passwd chat = *New\spassword:* %n\n *Re-enter\snew\spassword:* %n\n *Password\schanged.* .
>
> What could be wrong?
I've got similar problem too. It looks like a bug, so I submitted a bug
report (bug# 43492). I have not heard form the maintainer yet. You might
want to contribute your information to this bug report.
Sergey.
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