[Samba] Simple question regarding smbpasswd

[Cameron Laird]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu>wrote:

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> David Markey wrote:
>    ...
> > echo -e "newpassword\nnewpassword\n" | smbpasswd -a -s dmarkey
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> It's essentially the same format that you'd use on the command line if
> you were a user, but without the visual prompts.
>
   ... I personally prefer

    smbpasswd -a -s dmarkey HERE
    $NEW_PASS
    $NEW_PASS
    HERE

most days.  I also recognize that reasonable people can have different
styles.