This is version 0.2 of frgpasswd.

The latest release is available at:

        http://www.theknuddel.de/index_en.html

Frgpasswd was written by Knut Grahlmann <Knut.Grahlmann@bigfoot.com> and is
copyrighted under the terms of the GPL (see LICENSE for further information). 


INSTALL:

1) gcc -lcrypt -o frgpasswd

2) as root: chmod a+s frgpasswd

3) I propose to copy frgpasswd to /bin or /usr/bin so that it can be used.


USAGE:

-Regular users just call frgpasswd without any commandline options.
-Root can do so, too. However, he can also call it with a user's name as
the first argument to change that user's password.

HISTORY:

During the installation of the new computers in my school, there was the
problem that SAMBA's password list is not "compatible" with the shadow
system. This means that /etc/smbpasswd cannot created by a script from 
/etc/shadow as is it possible e.g. for Squid.
Unfortunately, SAMBA's built-in password synchronization did not work.
Since we (the admins) did not want to abandon the password encryption and 
also did not want to expect of the DAUs to type in their new password four
times (smbpasswd and passwd in a login-script), a program needed to be
written, which handles the two changes all at once. As you all can
imagine, frgpasswd is that program.
I chose the name frgpasswd, because my school's name is
Fritz-Reuter-Gymnasium (no, we are not an athletic school :-] ). 
