Adding a couple of simple functions to smbpasswd for Samba 2.2.8

[Herb Lewis]

I like the idea. I think this needs to be in 2.2.8 so we can 
really make this the last 2.2 release. :-)

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If a user changes the NetBIOS name of their Samba PDC, or the DNS name,
> when they have not set a NetBIOS name, their SID will change, and
> workstations that have joined the domain will not be able to log on.
> 
> This is because Samba uses the NetBIOS/DNS name to determine if it should
> generate a SID. There is a small discussion of this up on
> www.richardsharpe.com.
> 
> Between Volker Lendeke and I, we have added support to Samba Head and
> 3.0.0 that allows you to retrieve the old SID, which is still in the
> secrets.tdb file, and place the SID into the correct entry in the
> secrets.tdb if you ever get into that problem.
> 
> Now, I was thinking of doing something similar for Samba 2.2.8. This will
> involve modifying smbpasswd. For reasons of code simplicity, I have
> abandoned my earlier thoughs of using 'smbpasswd -L -S <dom>' to retrieve
> the old SID and something similar to set the SID.
> 
> Instead, I propose:
> 
>   smbpasswd -X <dom>
> 
> to eXtract the old SID
> 
> and
> 
>   msbpasswd -W S-1-5-21-x-y-z
> 
> to Write the new SID as the domain SID for the current domain into the
> secrets.tdb file.
> 
> These are not a lot of coding, should not destabalize any existing code,
> and will save at least some people some pain.
> 
> Are there any comments?
> 
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
> sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com

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