Samba server syncs smbpasswd file with unix user passwords even though the option is turned off

[NoOp]

On 06/14/2008 08:20 AM, mo wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> Do you by chance have libpam-smbpass installed?
> 
> Yes, the package really was installed and it seems like removing it did
> the trick!
> 
> I blame tasksel for installing the package because normally I installed
> samba through aptitude and never had this problem before and I didn't
> knew about the package.
> 
> Thanks so much for the help, NoOp!
> 

It a Hardy thing. And probably related to this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/216990
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam

You might want to review those, as there was an issue with the auth logs
being spammed if libpam-smbpass wasn't installed, or if the
pam_smbpass.so related lines in /etc/pam were not commented out.