Why does smbpasswd not work for some users?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 10:04 +0100, Bob Latham wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Using Fedora8.
> 
> I find some users I create have no problem having their smb passwords
> changed using smbpasswd. Others simply don't work and I get the error
> message "Failed to modify password entry for user <whatever>".
> 
> What are the possible causes for this, and could you point me at a method
> of fixing it please?
> 
> I remember from a fiddle I had with Linux some years ago that I used to
> have to copy the OS user passwords to SMB passwords using a method like
> this...
> 
> cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> 
> Is this procedure still required?
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No way...and I don't recall when that ever would have worked.

users changing their password from command line smbpasswd, I've never
seen that fail. It makes no sense that it would fail.

Craig