samba - Feb 2006 - Change smbpasswd in a cron job

Hi list

For a project we are trying to change the samba password automatically 
in a cron job. Since smbpasswd doesn't allow the password to be entered 
otherwise than though the console (user input). We found a solution to 
the input part though expect. But as thing go expect doesn't work in a 
cron job since it has no tty.

Is there anyone who can point us the right way to a solution.

Thanks in advance.

Dennis

On 2/20/06, Dennis Duggen <lists@duggen.net>
wrote:
> For a project we are trying to change the samba password automatically
> in a cron job. Since smbpasswd doesn't allow the password to be entered
> otherwise than though the console (user input). We found a solution to
> the input part though expect. But as thing go expect doesn't work in a
> cron job since it has no tty.
Depending on your SAM backend, you may be able to edit the backend
directly.  For example, we have some perl scripts to change passwords
by connecting directly to our LDAP server.  I posted a copy of our
script at http://www.jbc.edu/~josh/changepasswd.pl if you're
interested.

Josh Kelley