Samba4 Patch: newuseradv and newgroupadv scripts for net cmd utlity

[Michael Wood]

On 27 May 2010 21:42, Lukasz Zalewski <lukas at dcs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 27/05/2010 16:41, Michael Wood wrote:
>>
>> On 27 May 2010 14:25, Andrew Bartlett<abartlet at samba.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 10:59 +0100, Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>> This is repost from samba mailing list, but the patch is different
>>>> (fixed few bugs)
>>>> As per Jelmer's request - in response to bug #7455 attached diff file.
>>>> Please let me know what you think and if any modifications need to be
>>>> performed
>>>>
>>>> Also i have noticed that when the account is created using AD's Users
>>>> and Computers mmc utility the CN="FirstName Initials Surname" - and i
>>>> think without those the account will not be created. S4 uses CN=username
>>>> syntax which i prefer to be honest, but is this by design?
>>>
>>> Why is this a separate command?  Surely we can just have options on the
>>> existing command?
>>>
>>> It's great to be able to set these things, but I don't like 'newuseradv'
>>> as a name - it will just confuse things.
>>
>> I agree.  net is confusing enough as it is :)
>>
>> e.g.:
>>
>>        password        Changes/Sets the password on a user account [server
>> connection needed]
>> [...]
>>        setpassword     (Re)sets the password on a user account
>>
>
> On the simmilar note,
> there is also
>        newuser         Creates a new user
> [...]
>        user            User management [server connection needed]
>
> where
> bin/net user
> Available subcommands:
>        add
>        delete
>
> what is the difference between the two?

Some net commands directly access the LDB files.  I suspect this is
the difference, but I'm not sure it makes sense.  A "net" command that
has nothing to do with the network? :)

Maybe there's a good reason for the confusion or maybe the commands
that directly access the LDB files should be split into a separate
tool?

-- 
Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>