[Samba] Password change via samba-tool: encoding issue

[Chan Min Wai]

Just to ask

Care to try

samba-tool user setpassword foo

and type the password in command line?

Your "�" seem to be not supported... as password




On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Sergio Rizzi <sergio.rizzi at labs.it> wrote:

> On 20/03/2014 15:13, Sergio Rizzi wrote:
>
>> root at samba4dc:~# samba-tool user setpassword "foo" --newpassword="�"
>> ERROR: Failed to set password for user 'foo': 'utf8' codec can't decode
>> byte 0xa8 in position 1: invalid start byte
>>    File
>> "/usr/local/samba-4.1.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/
>> netcmd/user.py",
>> line 586, in run
>>      username=username)
>>    File
>> "/usr/local/samba-4.1.6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/samdb.py",
>> line 476, in setpassword
>>      pw = unicode('"' + password + '"', 'utf-8').encode('utf-16-le')
>>
>> How to fix it?
>>
>
> Any hint?
>
>
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