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authorJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>2003-07-31 21:47:22 +0000
committerJeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>2003-07-31 21:47:22 +0000
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Added a note inspired by andrew@cis.uoguelph.ca to explain when this
parameter gets run. Jeremy. (This used to be commit c5e11fd01003fa2d85c91ec81afd2cb2498472f5)
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for security implications. Note that by default <parameter moreinfo="none">unix
password sync</parameter> is set to <constant>no</constant>.</para>
+ <para>Not that this program is only invoked when a password change is
+ done via the smbd program, not when smbpasswd is used locally as root to
+ change a password. This means that you cannot run "smbpasswd USERNAME" as
+ root on the SMB server in order to test this parameter, but should run the
+ command "smbpasswd -r SMBMACHINE" as a non-root user instead if you want
+ to test the invocation of this program.</para>
+
<para>See also <link linkend="UNIXPASSWORDSYNC"><parameter moreinfo="none">unix
password sync</parameter></link>.</para>