[CentOS] How do I change passwords / remove users for Samba?

JohnS jses27 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 10:00:56 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:46 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote:
> On 23/06/2009 10:39, Brett Serkez wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Kevin Thorpe<kevin at pibenchmark.com>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> Yet I can still connect to the shares as kevin..... strange
> >>      
> >
> > As root try:
> >
> > # service smb reload
> Curiouser and curiouser. That worked, I can't connect now. Why should 
> Samba cache the password file?
> Seems a bit of a security problem to me.
---
The samba Caching directory is in /var/cache/samba . Why should it Cache
it? For quicker access. That is the way it is designed and I know of no
security flaw in that. Just executing service smb reload will not
disconnect a user. But using "restart" will dump all the users.

John




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