samba - Nov 2018 - What is samba-tool domain join --machine-pass

Samba-tool domain join ...  --machine-pass

-P, --machine-pass  Use stored machine account password

What does this do, mean or whatever?  I want it to mean that I will specify a
"machine password" for the samba-tool to use to put in the
"secrets.ldb" file.

Yet, I believe I am certain it has nothing or maybe almost nothing, to do with
that, but what is the option for then??  Wiki/manual page inadequate I think.

Barry Adkins

On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 04:28 +0000, Barry D. Adkins via samba
wrote:
> Samba-tool domain join ...  --machine-pass
> 
> -P, --machine-pass  Use stored machine account password
> 
> What does this do, mean or whatever?  I want it to mean that I will specify
a "machine password" for the samba-tool to use to put in the
"secrets.ldb" file.
> 
> Yet, I believe I am certain it has nothing or maybe almost nothing, to do
with that, but what is the option for then??  Wiki/manual page inadequate I
think.
This is the password it will use, rather than a random one, for the
trust account secret, stored in secrets.tdb/secrets.ldb.

I hope this clarifies things,

Andrew Bartlett

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