Samab4 - Alpha7

[Sassy Natan]

Thank you very much for the quick replay and support.

the net use did the job, and also started to do some changes to the newuser
command to enable it to create a user in a specific OU

10x again andrew

sassy





On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 23:53 +0200, Sassy Natan wrote:
> > Dear List
> >
> > Three quick questions:
> >
> > 1.Do someone know if it is possible to change user password from the
> command
> > line, or via the LDAP modify tool and not use Microsoft Active Directory
> > User and Computer tool?
> > I know there is a command line utility for creating new user, but I
> didn't
> > figure it out how can I change user password from the command line.
>
> you can use the Samba3 or Samba4 client tools to do this, such as (from
> Samba4) 'net password change' or 'net password set' such as:
>
> 'net password change -Uuser' or 'net password set -Uadmin user'
>
> > 2. When creating new user via the command line tool (*./setup/newuser
> > username ) *it creates the user in the User default container
> > (CN=Users,DC=Home,DC=Local). Is it possible to create a new user and put
> him
> > in a different OU? I know all of this can be done via the Active
> Directory
> > User and Computer tool, but I really want to manage my Samba4 domain from
> > the command line. I know I can create the user name using the newuser
> > command line, and then move it to anther OU using LDAPmodify, but maybe
> > there is better way to do this?
> >
> > 3. Is there any way to create a Group via the command line? ot it is only
> > limited to the Active Directory Users and Computers?
>
> You can create both users and groups by creating the skeleton ldif over
> LDAP or onto LDB (say using ldbadd), but the friendly scripts are pretty
> limited at this point.
>
> Creating an entry like
>
> cn=my user,ou=my ou,dc=my,dc=company
> objectclass: user
> samAccountName: username
>
> should be enough to get you started.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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> Andrew Bartlett
> http://samba.org/~abartlet/
> Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
> Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
>