Change Windows AD password from Linux

Question

Is there a way to change my Windows domain password from Linux?

Answer 1

I've done this on OS X, the same command exist on linux.

According to this site. Looks like the way to avoid adding the username to smbpasswd file to use smbpasswd -U <user> -r <IP address of DC>

Answer 2

I'm using the same solution as @JamesBarnett, I've just created a script that also gets the domain controller IP too (I never know what the IP is when I need to change my password).

#!/bin/bash

USER="your.username"
DOMAIN="yourdomain.com"

smbpasswd -U $USER -r `nslookup _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.$DOMAIN | awk '{print $2;exit;}'`