SCO & Samba passwords

[John Smith]

I'll try and keep this quick and simple.
Running OpenServer 5.0.6 and Samba 2.2.8a.
Our users access the server via telnet for our app and samba for their
file/print. Samba running PDC emulation. All good.
People up on high have asked us to enforce password changes every X days on
the SCO accounts.
Easily done in SCO, bitch of a thing in Samba since we are using encrypted
passwords.
From what I can see, I have a couple of choices.

1) Let the SCO and samba accounts get out of sync. Not preferred.
2) Switch off encrypted passwords. Not too bad a solution except for the
fact I will need to touch several hundred desktops. Blerk.
3) Some how make SCO, when a user is changing their password, also change
the smbpasswd entry for the user. Mucho preferred.

Is the 3rd option even remotely possible under SCO?
Anyone else run into this situation and care to offer a solution?

cheers

[Stuart J. Browne]

"John Smith" <atarts@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:vC_0b.49449$bo1.37962@news-server.bigpond.net.au...

> I'll try and keep this quick and simple.
> Running OpenServer 5.0.6 and Samba 2.2.8a.
> Our users access the server via telnet for our app and samba for their
> file/print. Samba running PDC emulation. All good.
> People up on high have asked us to enforce password changes every X days

on

> the SCO accounts.
> Easily done in SCO, bitch of a thing in Samba since we are using

encrypted

> passwords.
> From what I can see, I have a couple of choices.
>
> 1) Let the SCO and samba accounts get out of sync. Not preferred.
> 2) Switch off encrypted passwords. Not too bad a solution except for the
> fact I will need to touch several hundred desktops. Blerk.
> 3) Some how make SCO, when a user is changing their password, also change
> the smbpasswd entry for the user. Mucho preferred.
>
> Is the 3rd option even remotely possible under SCO?
> Anyone else run into this situation and care to offer a solution?

Have you looked ath the password changing stuff in Samba?

password program
password chat

in particular.. You should be able to coax those into working.

bkx