samba - Sep 2006 - Setting Initial Passwords

HI,

I'm trying to write a perl script to "add new users and set initial 
passwords" for them using smbpasswd.

The relevant parts of the script are as follows

        @tmp = split(/:/,);
        $login = $tmp[0];
        $password = $tmp[1];
        print "$login $password\n";
        exec("smbpasswd -a $login -s $password");

The print statement works and I see the username and password. However the 
exec statement fails and just dispalys the smbpasswd help screen.

Is it possible to add new accounts and set their initial passwords with 
smbpasswd.

Tony
 
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Tony Molloy.

Dept. of Comp. Sci.
University of Limerick

it seems that it does work in this way:

"echo -e '$password\n$password' | smbpasswd -s -a $login"

instead of

"smbpasswd -a $login -s $password"

at least form commad line. I don't know from perl.

Obviosuly you should first create the linux user.

HIH,
Gianluca