samba4, samba-tool command

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 14:34 -0400, Theresa Halloran wrote:
> On 5/3/2011 10:56 AM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Should password be a thing on its own ("samba-tool password set"),
> > rather than having it under user ("samba-tool user setpassword')? I'm
> > not sure either way. "samba-tool password" probably has more going for
> > it historically, but I think as a new user I would look under user. 
> Well, for starters I think we should combine the existing samba-tool
> setpassword and samba-tool password set .  I don't think we need two
> externals, even though implementation-wise they are different (one is
> local and one not local).  I'm also not sure what the difference
> between password set and password change is....couldn't set be used to
> change a password?
I think the difference is that one is intended for users and requires
the old password to be entered first, the other just sets the password
and requires administrator privileges.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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