Using smbpasswd from a pipe

[Jacques Gelinas]

As part of the linuxconf project (see my signature), an administration
module for Samba has been done. It manage most options of smb.conf.
Another thing it does is transparent management of both /etc/passwd and
/etc/smbpasswd. You flip a check box and both file are maintained
from the various user interface supplied by linuxconf (ncurses, html, the
passwd command).

To achieve this, we call the smbpasswd command and send the password on
stdin. This did not work at first because smbpasswd read from /dev/tty
directly (using the getpass). So I have modified this utility to simply
read from stdin when handle 0 is not a tty (no added option).

Is there another way to achieve that. Are there other people who have
created some procedure to maintain both passwords automagically.

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