smbpasswd password on the command line

[Herb Lewis]

I think it needs to be left in. It is great for testing (even though
it is insecure and should probably not be used for real changes).

Jim McDonough wrote:
> 
> in 3.0, specifying the password on the commandline has been broken for
> quite some time (since late 2001).  It went unnoticed until recently.  Some
> folks don't want to allow this for security reasons.  I've re-enabled it so
> that help/doc/smbpasswd are consistent (well, more consistent), but we
> could also just yank this.  What do folks think?
> 
> ----------------------------
> Jim McDonough
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> Samba Team
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> Scarborough, ME 04074
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> 
> jmcd at us.ibm.com
> jmcd at samba.org
> 
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