From d5c632cebb2e5ed640d237bd2b9bf20ff2e63e9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Allison Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:47:22 +0000 Subject: Added a note inspired by andrew@cis.uoguelph.ca to explain when this parameter gets run. Jeremy. (This used to be commit c5e11fd01003fa2d85c91ec81afd2cb2498472f5) --- docs/docbook/smbdotconf/security/passwdprogram.xml | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/docbook/smbdotconf/security/passwdprogram.xml b/docs/docbook/smbdotconf/security/passwdprogram.xml index dbcc261ce4..22235322c8 100644 --- a/docs/docbook/smbdotconf/security/passwdprogram.xml +++ b/docs/docbook/smbdotconf/security/passwdprogram.xml @@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ for security implications. Note that by default unix password sync is set to no. + 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. + See also unix password sync. -- cgit