Michel Bouchet wrote:> Hi,
>
> I used to set up Samba password on the command line with smbpasswd using
the
> following syntax :
> smbpasswd -a newuser "usersecretpasswd"
> smbpasswd -e newuser
> but it does work any more.
>
> How can I do the same without having to type in the password ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Michel
>
I haven't tried it, but this messagage was in the archives from June 27,
2005:
I had a little bit of trouble on my Redhat 9 system trying to get
smbpasswd to accept passwords on stdin so I can script it.
All of the solutions I saw on the mailing list were of the general
form:
(echo <pass>; echo <pass>) | smbpasswd -s <username>
For whatever reason, that didn't work for me. (note: I'm not much of a
Bash programmer!) What did however, is:
echo -n -e "$PASS1\n$PASS2" | smbpasswd -as $USERNAME
The -n switch tells echo not to add a trailing newline character, and
the -e switch tells it to interpret C-style escape characters, of which
\n is the carriage-return escape code. This is also assuming $PASS1 is
identical to $PASS2.
Hope this helps someone!
-- Nick Soracco <nick@hrd-aerosystems.com> HRD Aerosystems, Inc.