[Samba] Samba feature that might be nice
Herb Lewis
herb at sgi.com
Wed Feb 6 09:43:03 GMT 2002
The version of smbpasswd in 2.2.3 does exactly this.
Martyn Ranyard wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A couple of times (especially when sorting out my scripts for the
> umpteenth time), I have deleted a unix user before the smb user. This
> caused smbpasswd to panic and not delete the smb user. As far as I can
> tell, this doesn't present a security issue, as if there is no user in
> /etc/passwd then you cannot use the account in samba anyway, however, it
> would be nice for smbpasswd, if passed the -x argument didn't look for the
> user in /etc/passwd, just to save hand-editing the smbpasswd file.
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> ==============
> Martyn Ranyard
>
--
======================================================================
Herb Lewis Silicon Graphics
Networking Engineer 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy MS-510
Strategic Software Organization Mountain View, CA 94043-1351
herb at sgi.com Tel: 650-933-2177
http://www.sgi.com Fax: 650-932-2177
======================================================================
More information about the samba
mailing list