Passwords issues with samba 2.0.6

[Ricardo Stella]

Regarding item 'b' I guess I do need more coffe, since I totally missed
the '-s' option for the last 3 days I've been working on this...

But still, item 'a' should be treated as a bug ?


Ricardo Stella wrote:
> 
> In my pursuit of integrating samba password authentication with our own
> stuff, I've been looking at ways on synchronizing the two.  And here are
> the two problems for which I hope to get either solution:
> 
> a) smbpasswd will not pass down spaces to whatever is called for
> synchronization.  Barely looking at the synchronization routine, it
> scans as a string, which would skip anything after a space.  If
> smbpasswd is used without synchronization, it takes passwords with
> spaces without problems.  I guess the whole section would need to be
> rewritten ?
> 
> BTW, adjusting password chat doesn't help (at least under Solaris).  If
> I include any quotes (single or double) it passes them down...
> 
> b) Taking another approach, that is writing my own script that calls
> smbpasswd, I have another problem.  It will not accept parameters
> (old/new passwords) passed down via redirection (ie 'smbpasswd <
> pass.txt' where pass.txt includes the old and the new one twice).  Is
> there any other way to accomplish this ?  I'm doing this via a web
> interface, and would need to pass this down to the program, in a similar
> way that SWAT does it...
> 
> TIA...
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