smbpasswd and 32 X's

[Benjamin Kuit]

> Hi,
> 
> acting on information supplied by a Canadian guy who has been messing with
> Samba and Win NT, I entered the following command at a Linux console :-)
> 
> grep XXX /etc/smbpasswd | head -1 | cut -f3 -d: | wc
> 
> and received the following:
> 
> 	1	1	33
> 
> Same happens if I look for -f4 in the cut above.

The 33 would be the 32 X characters, plus the return character.
eg
echo X | wc
       1       1       2

Bj

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