[Samba] Password change via samba-tool: encoding issue
Sergio Rizzi
sergio.rizzi at labs.it
Mon Mar 24 10:09:38 MDT 2014
On 24/03/2014 17:00, Chan Min Wai wrote:
> 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
Using keyboard input seems to work.
How to fix using --newpassword ?
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> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Sergio Rizzi <sergio.rizzi at labs.it
> <mailto:sergio.rizzi at labs.it>> wrote:
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> 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?
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> Any hint?
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