A lot of corporate environments work with Active Directory credentials, and they have security rules for them, like renew password every 3 months or others.
So it’s good to know how to change a password without using a Windows computer, especially if you are a macOS user.
There will be many ways to change this password, I will show you my favorite: using smbpasswd command from terminal.
I know, smbpasswd is not available from default, and also is not available using brew, however we have another option: macports
- Go to macports website: https://www.macports.org/install.php and install it.
- Then you can user port command:
$ port install samba3
- Now you can use smbpasswd like this:
$ smbpasswd -U username -r DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_IP
- Or you can ask for help to the command
$ smbpasswd -h
Enjoy your new smbpasswd command 😉
Sergio Infante 