samba - Apr 2009 - smbpasswd

Hi,
For automation in Perl scripts that add users, trying to add in smbpasswd,
I'm sure, years ago, there was a way of issuing this without drama, now 
it seems it wont just take the password, is there a hidden option? or can 
we get "-w" changed so that it inserts the password into the pass
file?

`smbpasswd -a foo -w bar`;  would be nice and painless for automation
without writing yet another messy expect script :)


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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Res <res@ausics.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
> For automation in Perl scripts that add users, trying to add in smbpasswd,
> I'm sure, years ago, there was a way of issuing this without drama, now
it
> seems it wont just take the password, is there a hidden option? or can we
> get "-w" changed so that it inserts the password into the pass
file?
>
> `smbpasswd -a foo -w bar`; ?would be nice and painless for automation
> without writing yet another messy expect script :)
>
>
Maybe this can help you ?

http://www.programmingforums.org/thread6522.html

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