smbpasswd

[Ignacio Coupeau]

We have a similar problem with the October 1 distribution. I suppose the
problem was fixed, but when we ad NT to domain the file is corrupted as
follows:
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G7$:1007:046F63EE46542A31AAD3B435B51404EE:6E3D182B211DB7BE60AE59CD16FFC926:[W         
]:LCT-3614CA87:
G8$:1008:41B616C79B235D60AAD3B435B51404EE:0CE34A6E69DC35E5616DE069B17ECA3D:[W         
]:LCT-3614CA89:
G9$:1009:1DE44256DE11C9B77ED6D1AF61720F9B:1DE44256DE11C9B77ED6D1AF61720F9B:^M^Hhæÿ¿[W         
]:LCT-3614CF7C:1010:9A9E3
6912A71C62CAAD3B435B51404EE:5A1C3CC56BF378B2C337C40E6EBDF87E:[W         
]:LCT-3614CA90:
G11$:1011:F76FAD82789C8D35AAD3B435B51404EE:7E82F5329DB3F3CD554F2307EBA391C7:[W         
]:LCT-3614CA93:
G12$:1012:5F2796627EA0E4F4AAD3B435B51404EE:87E74AC8C0B467865CA31E5F420A0DE6:[W         
]:LCT-3614CA98:
G16$:1016:A955EE78829FDF1AD672938A693E1103:A955EE78829FDF1AD672938A693E1103:^M^Hhæÿ¿[W         
]:LCT-3614CED8:1017:72C8
B707F8BF899D798E2A26E94219F5:72C8B707F8BF899D798E2A26E94219F5:^M^Hhæÿ¿[W         
]:LCT-3614CECD:1018:89D6E7FF3B2DB92CAA
D
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The problem is detected some times in some workstations I think when a
delay or error occurs in the very firs login... But __all__ the
workstations are identical (hardware and disk are images)...


dkrovich at wvu.edu wrote:
> 
>         First off, let me say I'm running the lastest CVS update.  I just did one on
> October 2, at around 3pm...  Anyways, I'm having a problem with smbpasswd.  When I use
> it to change a users password, It adds a D character to the fifth field, which seems
> to disable the account.  I can manually edit the file, and delete the D and everything
> seems to work fine.
> 
>         Here is a sample before I run smbpasswd:
> 
> jrandom:2000:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:[U          ]:LCT-00000000:John Random
> 
>         And after I run smbpasswd:
> 
> jrandom:2000:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:[DU         ]:LCT-00000000:John Random
> 
>         (I intentionally left the password fields blank for obvious reasons.
> 
>         Is there a fix, or is something heiniously weird happening on my system?
> 
> 
> 
> 

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