-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Saravana Kumar wrote: > Hi List, > > I have FDS configured in the server. There are windows and Linux client in > our network. Windows users also have Linux. > > Linux clients are authenticating to fds. Samba server is running in a > different server and refers to the fds server(ldapbackend). For windows i > had to create a separate password with smbpasswd -a username for each user > which means samba password can be different from Linux password. Also the > password policy doesn't apply to the smbpasswd i create. > > Is there a way to use one password for both windows and linux logins? it seems imposible. btw on my system (postfix+dovecot+squirrelmail+FDS+samba) i'm having the same problem. on sysadmin side that should be no problem at all because by using webmin the userPassword and sambaNTPassword+sambaLMPassword is always syncronized. the problem was on user side (windows user), when they change their password it only change sambaNTPassword and sambaLMPassword. this problem should be solved too by using option "unix password sync"+"passwd program"+"passwd chat" on samba so that userPassword can be sync. but i'm having error message "you do not have permission to change password". on samba guidance when "unix password sync" set to "yes" the "passwd program" must be run as root. but i can not find any guidance on how to run it with root permission. does anyone know how to solve this problem? thanks sigid -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFZR8AqiPNNgPlDu0RAk/TAKC6tZqbXwsSYtCFjosx2U0zb44Q6ACbBork NEXfN7uIYcMyiSxQH6LdWpc= =Mtcu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
