Samba 3 and changepasswd

[Arun Shrimali]

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.

regards

Arun