Samba 3 and changepasswd

[Didar Hossain]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Arun Shrimali<arun.reso at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Didar Hossain<didar.hossain at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>>
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>
> Dear Didar,
>
> I am not an PHP expert, can you please help me, may be it would
> helpful for lots of other people like me.

I have sent you the script off-list; I do not have any place to host
it on the net for the time being. You may publish it if you like.

Didar