[CentOS] How best to allow users to change Samba passwords?

Ross Walker rswwalker at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 13:51:21 UTC 2009


On Jul 1, 2009, at 5:42 AM, Kevin Thorpe <kevin at pibenchmark.com> wrote:

> What's the best way of
> arranging this, preferably updating both servers at the same time?

What you should do is pick one server to manage the passwords and have  
the other setup to authenticate users against the first. Use samba's  
'password server=' option. Then password changes happen only on the  
password server.

I would start thinking samba domain controller at this point.

-Ross




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