[GRLUG] Samba passwds

[Godwin]

If you're granting your local admin shell access, you could (via 'sudo'
command) grant him access to the 'smbpasswd' and 'pdbedit' commands, which
is how Samba manipulates users (passwords, policies, etc).  That's what I
do (with Samba 3.x) - still - running as a PDC to Windows PCs.

With Samba 4, manipulation from an actual Windows box is touted, but I
haven't played with it in a year.

G-

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016, 8:35 PM Gary Greene <greeneg at tolharadys.net> wrote:

> Swat is effectively dead from the Samba project’s perspective, so I’d
> really not recommend using it considering how it has broken more than a few
> SMB configurations from what I’ve seen.
>
> If your machines are set up correctly, syncing password changes from the
> host to the ADDS server (whether a MS one or one running SMBd) should just
> work if using the newer ADS protocols, since it uses Kerberos for password
> half of the authentication.
>
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> > On Jan 8, 2016, at 3:24 PM, Patrick Goupell <patrick at yoopermail.us>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have used webmin for samba admin.
> >
> > You can set up a user in webmin with samba access only.
> >
> > Haven't used samba / swat in a while so cannot say if that would be
> helpful or not.
> >
> > On 01/08/2016 05:24 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> >> Have a server box where I would like to give a local admin a way to
> manage
> >> users & passwords. Have a good tool to manage *system* users, but the
> >> question is then how to update Samba passwords?
> >>
> >> Samba has unix password sync, of course, but that only works Samba ->
> >> System; would like to do it the other way.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >>      Thanks!
> >>
> >>      Lee
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