samba - Jul 2002 - PDC samba

Hi,
Got two questions.
1. If I'd added a machine to my domain (using samba as pdc) with the 
followig commands:
/usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c XPMachine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false $1$
/usr/bin/smbpasswd -a -m $1$
How should I then remove one of them if made a mistake osv?

2. How can I change the adminpassword for PDC?

/Jens THX

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Hi Jens,

1. It will be:
    /usr/bin/smbpasswd -x $1$
    /usr/sbin/userdel $1$

(Because it is a machine account, it will not have any files, but if you 
want to remove a normal user, you may want to delete all their files 
too. Then the second line would be /usr/sbin/userdel -r $1$)

2. On a Samba PDC, "Administrator" is just an alias for root. So if
you
change root's password, Administrator's password will be root's new 
password. So just do exactly what you would do to change any user's 
password. (smbpasswd & passwd)

Cheers,

Norman.


Jens Pettersson wrote:
> Hi,
> Got two questions.
> 1. If I'd added a machine to my domain (using samba as pdc) with the 
> followig commands:
> /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c XPMachine -d /dev/null -s /bin/false $1$
> /usr/bin/smbpasswd -a -m $1$
> How should I then remove one of them if made a mistake osv?
>
> 2. How can I change the adminpassword for PDC?
>
> /Jens THX
>
> _________________________________________________________________
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>

--On Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:52 AM +0200 Jens Pettersson 
<pettersson_jens@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 1. If I'd added a machine to my domain (using samba as pdc) with the
> followig commands: /usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -c XPMachine -d
> /dev/null -s /bin/false $1$ /usr/bin/smbpasswd -a -m $1$
> How should I then remove one of them if made a mistake osv?
A mistake that I noticed...
When you create the machine account, you LEAVE OFF the "$" in the
smbpasswd
command.
You wrote: 	/usr/bin/smbpasswd -a -m $1$
it should be:	/usr/bin/smbpasswd -a -m $1

- john