What happened to "smbpasswd -a -m"?

Juan Ignacio Del Valle Gamboa juanvale at terraba.fing.ucr.ac.cr
Fri Jun 25 16:47:38 GMT 1999


Hi.

I've been recently testing Samba 2.0.4 on a Debian 2.1 box; and when i
tried to add my first machine account I did what I've been doing with
version 2.0.0: "smbpasswd -a -m MACHINE$'. However, after reassuring
myself that the machine account was properly created in the /etc/passwd
and /etc/shadow, I figured out what was wrong: the '-m' parameter no
longer exists. 

I checked recent comments on this topic in this list, yet all the
instructions given here include the '-m' after 'smbpasswd -a'. What
exactly did I miss here? The documentation that comes with the Samba
package is a little bit out of date; and the man pages didn't give me any
clue. 

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Juan Ignacio Del Valle Gamboa
Asistente - Laboratorios Ingenieria
Universidad de Costa Rica
juan at 4u.net
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