samedit not creating valid smbpasswd entry (2.5.3 TNG)

Matt Ross m.g.ross at herts.ac.uk
Fri May 5 07:46:23 GMT 2000


> > root:0:NO PASSWORDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:NO
> > PASSWORDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:[NDU
> >      ]:LCT-FFFFFFFF:
> > #
> >
> > This is an invalid entry, right? My [globals] section is:
>
> no, it's a valid entry, as you requested.
>
> you did not specify a password on the createuser command, therefore for
> security reasons, the entry is marked as _N_opassword, _D_isabled,
> _U_seraccounttype.

Sorry, what I meant to say is that with previous versions of Samba (ie.
2.0.6 standard) each smbpasswd entry had many more fields, such as in this
example from an old smbpasswd file:

chris:114:0x0:0:0x0:[U          ]:D39A56F77F16F766AAD3B435B51404EE:8112DCAAE
E271
E437FB42571E51E2BCF:LNT-FFFFFFFF:LOT-FFFFFFFF:KOT-FFFFFFFF:LCT-38EDB215:CCT-
FFFF
FFFF:MCT-FFFFFFFF::/home/technical/comtcm:::\\bantam\user1\profiles\chris:::

I gather the differences are because I'm now using TNG? That would explain
much of the odd behaviour and crashes I have been getting as I only
restarted the smbpasswd from scratch recently.

That does make more sense to me now, as I used to get lots of errors about
the format of the entries.

Thanks,

Matt

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