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02-15-2008, 10:22 AM
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 SCO & Samba passwords I'll try and keep this quick and simple. Running OpenServer 5.0.6 and Samba 2.2.8a. Our users access the server via telnet for our app and samba for their file/print. Samba running PDC emulation. All good. People up on high have asked us to enforce password changes every X days on the SCO accounts. Easily done in SCO, bitch of a thing in Samba since we are using encrypted passwords. From what I can see, I have a couple of choices. 1) Let the SCO and samba accounts get out of sync. Not preferred. 2) Switch off encrypted passwords. Not too bad a solution except for the fact I will need to touch several hundred desktops. Blerk. 3) Some how make SCO, when a user is changing their password, also change the smbpasswd entry for the user. Mucho preferred. Is the 3rd option even remotely possible under SCO? Anyone else run into this situation and care to offer a solution? cheers      |
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02-15-2008, 10:23 AM
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| Re: SCO & Samba passwords "John Smith" <atarts@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:vC_0b.49449$bo1.37962@news-server.bigpond.net.au... > I'll try and keep this quick and simple. > Running OpenServer 5.0.6 and Samba 2.2.8a. > Our users access the server via telnet for our app and samba for their > file/print. Samba running PDC emulation. All good. > People up on high have asked us to enforce password changes every X days on > the SCO accounts. > Easily done in SCO, bitch of a thing in Samba since we are using encrypted > passwords. > From what I can see, I have a couple of choices. > > 1) Let the SCO and samba accounts get out of sync. Not preferred. > 2) Switch off encrypted passwords. Not too bad a solution except for the > fact I will need to touch several hundred desktops. Blerk. > 3) Some how make SCO, when a user is changing their password, also change > the smbpasswd entry for the user. Mucho preferred. > > Is the 3rd option even remotely possible under SCO? > Anyone else run into this situation and care to offer a solution? Have you looked ath the password changing stuff in Samba? password program password chat in particular.. You should be able to coax those into working. bkx |
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