smb.conf man page update
[email protected] Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:10:03 -0400 (EDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.samba.documentation |
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| Message-ID | <Pine.NEB.4.44.0307311458270.17229-100000@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> |
I've just spent longer than I'd hoped (as always) tracking down a problem in Samba password chat -- I eventually realized that the password chat (and subsequent UNIX system update) doesn't happen unless the machine asking for the update is remote. I'd love to update this in the docs, but it is unclear to me where the database for "db2man.xsl" generating the manpages is. If someone could point me at this entity, or otherwise cause text such as that below to be added to the smb.conf discussion about "passwd program" or "passwd chat", I think it will save others some hours of effort setting this up. Note that I have formatted the text using roff, as I assume this should go into the man page. Thanks, Andrew. --8<--cut here--8<---------------------------------------------- Note that the program mentioned in "passwd program" does not get invoked if the smbpasswd program is invoked on the local host as root. This means that you cannot invoke "smbpasswd USERNAME" as root on the SMB server in order to test the chat. To test whether password update through password program is working, you must change the password in one of the following ways: .RS .IP "\(bu" 5 as a (non-root) user on the local machine using "smbpasswd" .IP "\(bu" 5 as a user on a remote machine using "smbpasswd -r SMBMACHINE" .IP "\(bu" 5 from a Windows client machine .RE