Samba/LDAP password synchronization

[David Jansen]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:55:16AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 22:57, David Jansen wrote:
> > Solved, sort of. It turns out that smbpasswd when run as root does not
> > run the script, but when a user runs smbpasswd, the script is executed.
> > Workaround for root: 'smbpasswd -r localhost username
> 
> This is good info, but I can't figure out why smbpasswd doesn't want to
> run as root.
> 
> How do you add a new user then?
> I don't use ldap as a backend, and I have to use smbpasswd -a newuser

The users get added through LDAP (commandline or web interface). I used
smbpasswd only for setting the passwords. So basically, I don't know why
smbpasswd behaves so different when run as root, and how one is supposed
to run it. Would like to find out though...

David