On Tue Aug 17, 1999, Debian Mail wrote: > > > I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a > > > faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to > > > authenticate a user. How do I do that? > > > > You can't. > > So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every time he wants to > change his password?
Not necessarily. You don't have to use the same password for login and for samba. (Indeed, one could argue that this is a Good Thing.) Noel
