Passwords issues with samba 2.0.6

[Ricardo Stella]

In my pursuit of integrating samba password authentication with our own
stuff, I've been looking at ways on synchronizing the two.  And here are
the two problems for which I hope to get either solution:

a) smbpasswd will not pass down spaces to whatever is called for
synchronization.  Barely looking at the synchronization routine, it
scans as a string, which would skip anything after a space.  If
smbpasswd is used without synchronization, it takes passwords with
spaces without problems.  I guess the whole section would need to be
rewritten ?  

BTW, adjusting password chat doesn't help (at least under Solaris).  If
I include any quotes (single or double) it passes them down...

b) Taking another approach, that is writing my own script that calls
smbpasswd, I have another problem.  It will not accept parameters
(old/new passwords) passed down via redirection (ie 'smbpasswd <
pass.txt' where pass.txt includes the old and the new one twice).  Is
there any other way to accomplish this ?  I'm doing this via a web
interface, and would need to pass this down to the program, in a similar
way that SWAT does it...

TIA...
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