samba - Sep 2006 - Enabling user accounts

I'm importing an smbpasswdfile to a tdbsam file. I run pdbedit -i smbpasswd
-e tdbsam and all the user accounts are successfully imported. The problem
is that all of the user accounts that get imported are disabled. The user
accounts are not disabled in the smbpasswd file. I could run smbpasswd -e
<username> for each user in the smbpasswd file, however smbpasswd requires
that you set a password when you enable a user account, rendering the
import completely worthless. Any ideas?

Solved my own problem. The smbpasswd file was not formatted correctly
causing pdbedit to not read the account flags. After I reformatted the file
the accounts imported correctly.

I would, however, like to find a way to enable a user account without having
to set a password. Is this possible?

John D Paul wrote:
> I'm importing an smbpasswdfile to a tdbsam file. I run pdbedit -i
> smbpasswd -e tdbsam and all the user accounts are successfully imported.
> The problem is that all of the user accounts that get imported are
> disabled. The user accounts are not disabled in the smbpasswd file. I
> could run smbpasswd -e <username> for each user in the smbpasswd
file,
> however smbpasswd requires that you set a password when you enable a user
> account, rendering the import completely worthless. Any ideas?
>