Samba 3 and changepasswd

[Didar Hossain]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Arun Shrimali<arun.reso at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Didar Hossain<didar.hossain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Arun Shrimali<arun.reso at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I have recently setup a standalone Samba 3.32 server on Fedora 11,
>>> which is working fine. Now I want my users to change their password
>>> through browser interface.
>>>
>>> Is there any web based utility through which users can change their
>>> password in tdbsam ?? as samba 3 uses tdbsam
>>>
>>> I have tried changepasswd with smbpasswd
>>> (http://changepassword.sourceforge.net/), but it change system
>>> password as well as samba password), where as I want to change only
>>> smbpasswd, and there is no option to avoid system password to change
>>> which is giving error ??
>>
>> I believe, you will have to write your own web front-end to change SMB
>> passwords in this case.
>>
>> Didar
>>
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>
> But I don't know the tdbsam, can anybody help me out ............
>
> Arun

I meant writing a PHP script as a wrapper around `smbpasswd' - you do
not have to worry about manipulating the tdbsam file youself. If you
want an example script then let me know.

Didar