How to use /etc/passwd passwords for NTDOM?

[Gerald W. Carter]

Nuno Loureiro wrote:
> 
> Is there any automatic way of converting /etc/passwd (or shadow) to
> smbpasswd? mkpasswd doesn't seem to work well (it doesn't convert the
> passwords, instead it puts XXXX.... in the smb password field).

Short answer.  No this is no automatic way of doing this.  Sorry.  

I welcome corrections if I am wrong on this one.



j-
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