samba - Dec 2004 - Smbpasswd -a USERNAME PASSWORD -- no longer works in samba 3.0.9!!!

All our scripts etc no longer work since installing 3.0.9 when adding new
users.

We use a perl script to make sure there are no duplicate names/uid's etc and
generate a random 8 char password.

It then adds the user to /etc/passwd with that password and then invokes
smbpasswd -a $username $password which no longer works with the 3.0.9
version of smbpasswd!

Why has this mind bogglingly useful function been taken out?? Is there a way
I can put it back in or use a 3.0.5 version with out issues??

Cheers

Ross McInnes

(A now bald) system admin

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sysrm wrote:
| All our scripts etc no longer work since installing 3.0.9 when adding new
| users.
|
| We use a perl script to make sure there are no duplicate names/uid's
etc and
| generate a random 8 char password.
|
| It then adds the user to /etc/passwd with that password and then invokes
| smbpasswd -a $username $password which no longer works with the 3.0.9
| version of smbpasswd!

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

It was mentioned in the release notes in case anyone
ever reads those :-)




cheers, jerry
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