samba DC and ctrl+alt+del password changes

[Red Squirrel]

I have samba running my DC at home, if I use ctrl+alt+del to change my password in windows, it works great, is there a way to extend this so it changes my /etc/passwd password too?

 

[Nothinman]

I doubt the password is transmitted to the DC in the clear which is what would be required for that to have any chance of working. You could always setup a central store in a database like LDAP and have both local PAM and Samba authenticate there.

 

[DaiShan]

A better method is to use pam to authenticate against your samba server, that way when you change the password via smbpasswd or passwd it will be updated globally. You can use winbind to do this, or if you have CentOS or RHEL system-config-authentication will give you an easy to use interface (by far the fastest way I've been able to join a linux desktop to a domain)