nis password file -> smbpasswd?

[Christian Barth]

> ive got several hundred user accounts in NIS that i need to get into the
> smbpasswd file. since samba doesn't actually use NIS, but can only be in
> sync with it, what is the best way to get all these passwords into
> smbpaswd? I'd hate to have to have all users re-enter their passwords...
to creae the smbpasswd file with all disabled accounts you can use a 
little skript shipped with the samba source. To get the encrypted 
passwords into smbpasswd you have to re-enter all user passwords! But 
samba can help you there: set "update encrypted = yes" in smb.conf 
and run your site with plaintext passwords for a wheile. look at man 
smb.conf about this parameter.

Again:
exept cracking the unix/nis passwords there is NO automatic way to 
generate the encrypted passwords form them!

Christian


> 
> anyone done this before? thanks in advance,
> 
> alex
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>    Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group
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