[Gllug] smbpasswd change

[Henrik Morsing]

> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:28:00PM -0000, Henrik Morsing wrote:
>> If I enable debug I get:
>>
>> Old SMB password:
>> New SMB password:
>> Retype new SMB password:
>> Connecting to 127.0.0.1 at port 445
>> error connecting to 127.0.0.1:445 (Connection refused)
>> Connecting to 127.0.0.1 at port 139
>> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The
>> specified
>>  password is invalid.
>> Failed to change password for hhmors
>> madbt201 $
>
> I would say that, as it says, the specified password is invalid!  But I
> think you're assuming it's talking about the NEW password, whereas I would
> read that as referring to the OLD password which you must of course know
> in
> order to change it.
>

If anyone is interested I finally cracked this one. I did a nice little
truss on the SMB process. It proved that there was a file missing in
/usr/bin called s2upasswd.pl


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