smbpasswd password on the command line

[Ignacio Coupeau]

Jim McDonough wrote:

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> 
> 
> in 3.0, specifying the password on the commandline has been broken for
> quite some time (since late 2001).  It went unnoticed until recently.  Some
> folks don't want to allow this for security reasons.  I've re-enabled it so
> that help/doc/smbpasswd are consistent (well, more consistent), but we
> could also just yank this.  What do folks think?

May be useful for accounts maintenance in some scenarios or at least I 
re-wrote my own version of smbpasswd to do this.

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