Greetings,

Our users are unable to change their passwords using SWAT on our Slackware64 14.0 server(s). No error (or success) message shows on the page after the attempt.

This shows up in /var/log/samba/log.swat:

[2013/10/07 12:58:35.464763, 3] lib/dbwrap_tdb.c:359(db_open_tdb)
Could not open tdb: Permission denied
[2013/10/07 12:58:35.464787, 0] passdb/secrets.c:76(secrets_init)
Failed to open /etc/samba/private/secrets.tdb

I tried changing the perms on /etc/samba/private and /etc/samba/private/secrets.tdb to be readable by all users. After his, I could stat and cat the file as a user, but the error messages still show up in log.swat for that user.

Info:

In /etc/samba/smb.conf:

passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
unix password sync = Yes

I'm at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I believe I have found the answer to this, thought the answer I found is: "It can't be done with Samba 3.6.18:
It seems that between 3.2.15 and 3.6.18 Samba changed SWAT so users can no longer change their own passwords.

I suppose this is to prevent users from changing other users' passwords via SWAT. (I was able to to this with Samba 3.2.15 on Slackware 12.2).

So, the new problem is that I need a way for user's to be able to change their own passwords.

Any ideas?
Thanks!
Stu...