samba - Jun 1999 - Does mksmbpasswd.sh have any real purpose?

I see that mksmbpasswd.sh (plus a little editing) would
be a good way to set up users with "NO PASSWORD"
in bulk.

But suppose I don't want the risk of the "NO PASSWORD"
approach.  Now somebody with root access must run
smbpasswd for each user they want to activate.  But can't
I just do this anyway (with the -a 'add user' option), without
ever having run mksmbpasswd.sh?

Please clue me in if I'm missing something here.

Thanks.

     Frank R.Brown
     Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews

On 5 Jun 99, Gerald Carter had this to say about Re: Does 
mksmbpasswd.sh have any real purpose?:  
> I wrote:
> > 
> > manually using (what else) smbpasswd.  Or you can set:
> > unix passwd sync = yes
> > and use the standard passwd command instead.  
> 
> Nope.  This only has relevance when issuing a password 
> change request from a Windows client.
Oops <grin> my mistake (again).  I was just pulling stuff (some of 
which I've never tried myself) off the top of my head (because I 
haven't finished running cable to the back room and I can't get to 
my server :(

Thanks again for paying attention.
> > Or you can run:
> > update encrypted = yes
> > encrypted = no
> > and let each user login normally.  Once each user's password has
> > been added to /etc/smbpasswd you switch to
> > update encrypted = no
> > encrypted = yes
> > and there you go.
> 
> This is correct.  
> 
> Seems like we have a long conversation today.  Hope you 
> don't mind.
Nope.  See above

Steve

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"Frank R. Brown" <list.Frank@MailAndNews.com>
wrote:
>I see that mksmbpasswd.sh (plus a little editing) would
>be a good way to set up users with "NO PASSWORD"
>in bulk.
>
>But suppose I don't want the risk of the "NO PASSWORD"
>approach.  Now somebody with root access must run
>smbpasswd for each user they want to activate.  But can't
>I just do this anyway (with the -a 'add user' option), without
>ever having run mksmbpasswd.sh?
>
>Please clue me in if I'm missing something here.
Try this:

    # smbpasswd -a newuser
    # smbpasswd newuser defaultpassword

The smbpasswd command can take a new password from command line option.
This feature is undocumented option :-).

NOTE: Anyone can see command line options in any proceses by
using the ps command. (BSD-style `ps` only?)

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