This is a tricky question when my customer ask me why he can’t change certain on his home folder.
Said for an example:
I have a username: john with primary group finance running on one of the Linux server.
$id john
uid=1008(john) gid=1002(finance) groups=1002(finance)
$pwd
/home/john
$ls -l aug2008.txt
-r-rw-r– 1 john finance [...]
In order to sync Linux user password and Samba user password, you have to configure PAM. Personally I’m using SLES9 for my testing environment and I have to configure /etc/pam.d/passwd and /etc/pam.d/sshd as following:
password required pam_smbpass.so nullok try_first_pass use_authtok
How to test?
Create a new user called testing
#useradd -m testing
Setup default password
#passwd testing
Create a new samba user
#smbpasswd [...]
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