samba - Apr 2012 - macro characters with pdbedit ?

Hi,

I would like to change the Logon script name attributes of a samba user account
to something like logon%u.cmd using pdbedit with the --script option. It does
not work because the string logon%u.cmd is litteraly taken as the value, loosing
the variable substitution at evaluation time. pdbedit -v output gives
"Logon Script : logon%u.cmd" .?

When creating a user account without --script option, it takes by default the
string that is specified in the smb.conf (say : logon%a.cmd) as a macro that
will be evaluated later (pdbedit -v gives Logon Script: logonUNKNOWN.cmd which
seems normal on linux).

So my question is :? is it possible to use macro characters with pdbedit the
same way they are used in the smb.conf ? If not how can I change account
attributes (and specifically the Logon Script Name) with macro charaters ? maybe
with another tool than pdbedit ?

Thanks in advance

Henri


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> From: ciradhb.forward at laposte.net [mailto:ciradhb.forward at
laposte.net]
> Sent: 03 April 2012 11:49
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to change the Logon script name attributes of a samba user
> account to something like logon%u.cmd using pdbedit with the --script
> option. It does not work because the string logon%u.cmd is litteraly
> taken as the value, loosing the variable substitution at evaluation
> time. pdbedit -v output gives "Logon Script : logon%u.cmd" .
> 
> When creating a user account without --script option, it takes by
> default the string that is specified in the smb.conf (say :
> logon%a.cmd) as a macro that will be evaluated later (pdbedit -v gives
> Logon Script: logonUNKNOWN.cmd which seems normal on linux).
> 
> So my question is :  is it possible to use macro characters with
> pdbedit the same way they are used in the smb.conf ? If not how can I
> change account attributes (and specifically the Logon Script Name) with
> macro charaters ? maybe with another tool than pdbedit ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Henri
You could hard-code each user name into the Logon Script using a shell script to
loop through the user database and pick out the names:

  for u in `pdbedit -L | cut -d: -f1`; do 
    [[ $u =~ \\$ ]] && continue    # Filter out machine accounts
    echo pdbedit -S logon_$u.cmd -u $u
  done

If it looks like the pdbedit commands are correct, remove the "echo".

Otherwise, you could try setting --script to whatever it gets when it picks up
its value from "logon script" in smb.conf.


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