Greetings - I manage a small office network running RH ES3 with a dozen Window clients (XP and 2000) using Samba 3. I would like to synchronize password changes so that when the login password is changed on the Windows client it is perpetuated to Samba and the Linux user account. I have been able to confirm that Samba is configured with PAM enabled (although I am completely ignorant of PAM), and have recently added the "unix password sync = yes" and "pam password change = yes" to my smb.conf file as shown below. My documentation indicated that this is the only configuration parameters that are necessary to synchronize passwords, if PAM was enabled. Testing this configuration reveals that changing the Windows password IS changing the Samba password, but IS NOT changing the Linux user password. I can't seem to find another possible solution to this in my Samba reference book and other samba documentation reviewed on the web. I am not sure whether this is a Samba issue or a Linux issue, so I thought I would post my question here. #===== Global Settings ===== [global] server string = Bison samba server printcap name = /etc/printcap load printers = yes log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 unix password sync = yes pam password change = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 os level = 33 preferred master = yes password server = None guest ok = yes security = SHARE dns proxy = no #===== Share Definitions ===== [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writeable = yes hide dot files = yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no printable = yes [ecosystem] path = /ecosystem writeable = yes create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 inherit permissions = yes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeff Boyce www.meridianenv.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
