samba - Apr 2003 - Importing all users from /etc/shadow automatically (addtosmbpass not found)

Hy all! I'm new to this group, I welcome everyone.

OS: Debian Woody 3.0, kernel 2.4.20-grsecurity
Samba: 2.2.8a, compiled from source
State: Samba up, and running
Problem: I've got hundreads of unix users, and I don't want to import
them one
by one using smbpasswd. I've got a book from O'reilly wich is told to be
the
official. It says, this thing can be done by using the 'addtosmbpass'
awk
script. But I haven't got such. Not if I use debian's apt-get to install
samba,
nor when I install it from source.

Does anyone know such utility or some "hidden" parameters for
smbpasswd to
import all users from the shadow file, with their passwords?

Thx!


-- 

Thomas Elias
Tel.: +3630/3299315


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On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, [ISO-8859-2] ?li?s Tam?s wrote:
> Hy all! I'm new to this group, I welcome everyone.
>
> OS: Debian Woody 3.0, kernel 2.4.20-grsecurity
> Samba: 2.2.8a, compiled from source
> State: Samba up, and running
> Problem: I've got hundreads of unix users, and I don't want to
import them one
> by one using smbpasswd. I've got a book from O'reilly wich is told
to be the
> official. It says, this thing can be done by using the
'addtosmbpass' awk
> script. But I haven't got such. Not if I use debian's apt-get to
install samba,
> nor when I install it from source.
>
> Does anyone know such utility or some "hidden" parameters for
smbpasswd to
> import all users from the shadow file, with their passwords?
It is not possible to convert Unix crypt passwords to Microsoft DES/MD4
hashed passwords. There is no tool for doing that. The best you can do is
to automate the process of adding users to the smbpasswd file, but then
all passwords still need to be set manually, one by one. The addtosmbpass
utility did only that.

You will find the old addtosmbpass script in the samba sources in:
	~samba/sources/scripts

If you decide to use it, please note that this tool had no forward
compatibility path.

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org