What happened to "smbpasswd -a -m"?

[canfield]

You have to be root in order to use the -m flag.  Otherwise it doesn't even
show up as an option.
I'm not sure if this is documented, but it's confused me on several occasions
as well.

-Can

Juan Ignacio Del Valle Gamboa wrote:

> 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 package is a little bit out of date; and the man pages didn't give me any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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