smbpasswd ?

[Andrew Bartlett]

Paul Reilly wrote:
> 
> > For reasons of extreme frustration (been bitten by this one...)
> > smbpasswd (in non-root mode) takes the command line argument as the new
> > password...
> >
> 
> % smbpasswd opensesame
> Old Password: ****
> Password changed for user paulr
> %
> 
> I see what you mean!! 'opensesame' is now my password! This is rather
> unintuitive, and doesn't sound like the best syntax for a command to me!
> I've actually got it work using the syntax 'smbpasswd -r localhost -U $user'
> in my script, which does the job.
> 
> Maybe the command syntax could be cleaned up a bit?

The problem is that sombody else's script took advantage of this, and
will break if we do... :-)

Andrew Bartlett

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