samba - Jul 1999 - automating smbpasswd

Hi,

I have about 1100 users on my system. I am setting up samba and I would
like to use encrypted password. I would like to automate the creation of
smbpasswd file. I have generated the smbpasswd with the mksmbpasswd.sh
script and now I have to add the passwords. I can not possibly type
passwords for 1100 users twice so I would like to automate them. I can
store users password file (temporarily) in normal text. I am writing a
script to take this password (fork smbpasswd and take control of its STDIN
from parent). It seems that smbpasswd ignores any input from the parent. 

My questions are :
- What is smbpasswd input?
- Is there any script which does what I want to do?

Thank you.

Suryani.


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Suryani Lim 
Department of Psychology          
University of Melbourne           
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia

Email: s.lim@psych.unimelb.edu.au
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:31:54 +1000, S Lim wrote:
>I have about 1100 users on my system. I am setting up samba and I would
>like to use encrypted password. I would like to automate the creation of
>smbpasswd file. I have generated the smbpasswd with the mksmbpasswd.sh
>script and now I have to add the passwords. I can not possibly type
>passwords for 1100 users twice so I would like to automate them. I can
>store users password file (temporarily) in normal text. I am writing a
>script to take this password (fork smbpasswd and take control of its STDIN
>from parent). It seems that smbpasswd ignores any input from the parent. 
>
>My questions are :
>- What is smbpasswd input?
>- Is there any script which does what I want to do?
Consider you have a file I_should_not_have_this in this format

	user1 password1
	user2 password2

then the script is:

cat I_should_not_have_this | while read line ; do
	set $line
	smbpasswd $1 $2
done

Regards,
        Robert

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