Importing smbpasswd with pdbedit -i

Simo Sorce simo.sorce at xsec.it
Thu Aug 15 10:04:01 GMT 2002


Ooh yes, you are true, now I recall (I wrote that code last year, but
forgot completely :)

Simo.


On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 20:44, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> This is probably a 2.2-problem. The 2.2 pdbedit --import option works 
> different than the one in HEAD. The 2.2 --import is a special function 
> that tries to read smbpasswd like files while the HEAD --import option
> uses the code from whatever backend you specify to it.
> 
> Jelmer
> 
> > I do not what's wrong in pdbedit, works fine for me (I use HEAD).
> 
> > On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 11:58, Thomas.Mieslinger at germanparcel.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> 
> > > I used pdbedit -i to import my old /etc/smbpasswd into a NIS+ table. 
> > > pdbedit generated for Workstationaccounts entries like this:
> > > degpd060w147$:1064:3128:502:2005:[U          ]:C39B59E02D...
> 
> > > well, the workstation can log into the domain and works quite well, but 
> > > when you throw away the old installation on the client and then want to 
> > > join the workstation (with the same name) again, Samba is unable to delete 
> > > the workstation account and create a new one.
> 
> > > I worte a little script to fix up all Workstation Accounts to be like 
> > > this:
> > > degpd060w147$:1064:3128:502:2005:[W          ]:C39B59E02D...
> 
> > > Is it possible to correct the behavior of pdbedit?
> 
> > > Yes, I'm using Samba 2.2.5
> 
> > > regards Thomas
> > > -- 
> > > German Parcel
> > > Thomas Mieslinger
> > > German-Parcel-Str. 1-7     fon: +49 6677 17 463
> > > 36286 Neuenstein            fax: +49 6677 17 111
> > > Germany                           eMail: thomas.mieslinger at germanparcel.de
> 
> > -- 
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> 
> 
> -- 
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