pdbedit --force-initialized-passwords returns "Bad TDB Context pointer"

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Lin Li wrote:
| Hi there,
|
| I use a debian based system with samba3.0.0. I compiled
| samba 3.0.2 and  run "pdbedit-3.0.2 --force-initialized-passwords".
| I got  "pdb_get_sampwent: Bad TDB Context pointer." Anyone
| tried this?

Try

~  root# pdbedit-3.0.2 --force-initialized-passwords \
~        -b=tdbsam:<path to passdb.tdb>

My guess is that the 3.0.2 version you compiled is looking
for things is different paths than the version you have installed.
This is just a guess (wuthout more information).






cheers, jerry
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