On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 10:55 +1000, Matt Stucky (Office) wrote: > Hi All, > > I've set up FDS as the ldap back end for a Samba PDC. It is working > well, but I'm having a problem with Windows users changing their > password from Windows. When I use "ldap passwd sync = yes" (in the > samba config) Windows users receive an error message when they attempt > to change their password. What actually happens is their Samba/NT > passwords are changed, but the posix password is not. If I use "ldap > passwd sync = no" (default) then the users can successfully change their > passwords but, as per the smb.conf man page, only the Samba/NT passwords > are changed, not the posix password. I have FDS, User Admin tool > (Webmin - LDAP users and Groups), and /etc/ldap.conf set to use MD5 for > password hashing. > > If, on the server I run "smbpasswd test_user" and attempt to change a > user's password that way; it gives me the error: > --------------- > ldapsam_modify_entry: LDAP Password could not be changed for user > test_user: Confidentiality required > Operation requires a secure connection. > > Failed to modify entry for user test_user. > Failed to modify password entry for user test_user > --------------- > > It looks like FDS requires SSL in order for a user's posix password to > be changed from Samba/Windows. I need to have the Samba and posix > passwords syncronized. Do I need to set up SSL for that to work, or is > there something else I am missing? I found a post where someone used > "unix password sync = yes" with smbldap-passwd for the password program > as a workaround for this same problem, but I would prefer the tidier and > simpler "ldap passwd sync = yes". Has anyone run into this and figured > out how to make it work? ---- my guess is that you have something wrong with your 'password chat script' in smb.conf or possibly something amiss in smbldap configuration because it does work. Craig
