samba4, samba-tool command

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Sun May 8 00:17:23 MDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 19:19 -0700, tms3 at tms3.com wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 11:06 -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.
> >>>
> > <snip>
> >>
> >> I certainly think that the password should simply be a modifier on
> >> various objects, such as user,
> > Ok, i updated the table to make setpassword and changepassword actions 
> > against the user object.....so:
> >
> > user setpassword <username> <passoword>  ...etc.
> > &
> > user changepassword <username> <password> ...etc.
> 
> Can't this be done with switches under a password command tree?
> 
> samba-tool passwd -u <uname> -a <add> -m <machine account> etc., which 
> would maintain a similarity with smbpasswd?
I think if we want to maintain that level of compatibility we should
just keep the smbpasswd utility around - if users have to switch to
samba-tool anyway, let's at least give them a consistent interface.

Cheers,

Jelmer


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