On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 05:20 +0100, David Ellsmore wrote: > Ivan Arteaga wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I need my users to change their passwords, so I defined them as webmin users > > and gived them access only to the system/change password option to do so. So > > far so good... they changed their system passwords (in order to access > > email) but the change it's not reflected in samba passwords. I defined the > > option change password in other modules in webmin but it doesn't works, I > > also have in the smb.conf "unix password sync = yes" but the same. > > I will appreciate if somebody can give me an idea about how to ride this, or > > maybe using another app? o_0 > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > --Ivan. > > > > > This is not CentOS related.....you'd get some/any/better answers in a > Samba list.....but I'll try to give you a few pointers anyhow.... > > http://www.rhce2b.com/clublinux/RHCE-27.shtml > > Read the above - it suggests that the Unix password is "synced" with > Samba - not as you seem to be wanting to do (Samba with Unix). > > AFAIK Samba holds its passwords in /etc/samba/smbpasswd - you may need > to use the "convert Unix users to Samba users option" or consider using > a different user authentication method to configure a system wide > password for your users. I can't remember if the "user conversion" > includes the passwords....you'll have to try it and find out! :-) > > Insofar as allowing user access to Webmin, I think this is a *bad* idea > - the words "shoot", "self" and "foot" come to mind.....it may be > perfectly safe to do but my gut feeling is that Webmin is much too much > dangerous to allow "Joe Q. User" any access to it at all. > thank you David!!! I second that for sure! John Rose