samba - Nov 2004 - smbpasswd and password on command line

Hello -

I see from the 3.0.8 release notes:

  * Remove support for passing the new password to smbpasswd
       on the command line without using the -s option.

I used to use the option:

 	smbpasswd -a $user $pass

to quickly add a new user to the smbpasswd database.  This no longer 
works in 3.0.8.  I have tried every combination I can think of adding the 
-s and -L options to the command line and in every case I get the 
smbpasswd help file.  Can someone give me the correct syntax to be able to 
add a user and set their password on a single command line?

Thanks!

--

Tim Winders
Associate Dean of Information Technology
South Plains College
Levelland, TX 79336

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Tim Winders wrote:
| Hello -
|
| I see from the 3.0.8 release notes:
|
|  * Remove support for passing the new password to smbpasswd
|       on the command line without using the -s option.
|
| I used to use the option:
|
|     smbpasswd -a $user $pass
|
| to quickly add a new user to the smbpasswd database.
| This no longer  works in 3.0.8.  I have tried every combination
| I can think of adding the -s and -L options to the command line


(echo $pw; echo $pw ) | smbpasswd -s -a $user





cheers, jerry
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