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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