From: Jim McDonough <jmcd@samba.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:42:59 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Don't look up local user for remote changes, even when root.
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c47bcb5b24ab360d5e632bbf3dcbc7d1d9f6fc4;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git

Don't look up local user for remote changes, even when root.
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diff --git a/source/utils/smbpasswd.c b/source/utils/smbpasswd.c
index 041b02a6440..47377e1487e 100644
--- a/source/utils/smbpasswd.c
+++ b/source/utils/smbpasswd.c
@@ -430,14 +430,18 @@ static int process_root(int local_flags)
 		}
 		
 		if((local_flags & LOCAL_SET_PASSWORD) && (new_passwd == NULL)) {
-			struct passwd *passwd = getpwnam_alloc(NULL, user_name);
+			struct passwd *passwd;
 
-			if (!passwd) {
-				fprintf(stderr, "Cannot locate Unix account for "
-					"'%s'!\n", user_name);
-				exit(1);
+			if (remote_machine == NULL) {
+				passwd = getpwnam_alloc(NULL, user_name);
+
+				if (!passwd) {
+					fprintf(stderr, "Cannot locate Unix account for "
+						"'%s'!\n", user_name);
+					exit(1);
+				}
+				TALLOC_FREE(passwd);
 			}
-			TALLOC_FREE(passwd);
 
 			new_passwd = prompt_for_new_password(stdin_passwd_get);