[samba-tng] spoolss conversion and others

[Elrond]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 05:00:24AM +1100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Elrond wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 04:39:29AM +1100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > > > > then i will get on with designing and writing a srv_samrd_tdb.c.  
> > > > > _that's_ going to be fun, i get a chance to cut out all that trash in
> > > > > passdb/*.c and groupdb/*.c, hooray, at last i hear you all say.
> > > > 
> > > > I hope, there will be some nice tools to modify the
> > > > database by hand. (I'm one of those admins, who like his
> > > > editor for doing _many_ things.)
> > > 
> > > :) rpcclient will be your best friend.
> > 
> > Well, I like to do funny things, like comment out users,
> 
> oo! *wobble*  makes me go jittery at the knees just tinking about it.

*grin*

You never saw sysadmins adding users by editing /etc/passwd
directly? Well... I'm one of these. ;)

> > and create temporary new lines for them and other stuff...
> > Or grabbing crypted pws from nt-boxes and writing them
> > directly into smbpasswd.
> 
> there's alsways rpcclient samsync command for that one, you know :)

But that only works on NT Server, doesn't it? I grab the
passwords from workstations, so I can migrate those people
into the samba-domain.

> > Yes, I know, one shouldn't do this, but hey, in 99% of the
> > cases, I know, what I do. ;)
> 
> true.
> 
>  and hey, writing a tdbdump can't be _that_ hard!  come on, there's
> dump_data() and its partner, out_data(), and i also added out_struct()
> because i needed to produce hex dumps and use them in c-code.
> 
> luke

I'll take a look at it, and possibly send Andrew a patch
for his tdbtool. ... next week... maybe.


    Elrond