[Samba] smbpasswd -s silent mode

[Kevin Pate]

I just use the autopasswd command that comes with the expect package. 
By modifying this script (replacing the spawn passwd with spawn
smbpasswd) I can get smbpasswd to run in silent mode.  The only problem
with this is that the autopasswd script won't allow you (I haven't been
successful with it) to passwd command line arguments to smbpasswd. 
Therefore, if you want to add a user called candrew with a password of
"password", just have the following 2 lines in your script:

smbpasswd -an candrew
autopasswd candrew password

Hope this helps some.

On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 03:32, Christian Barth wrote:

    > Can someone show me the syntax required to use smbpasswd in silent mode.
    > 
    > I've tried the following to add user candrew with password chris01:
    > 
    > # echo chris01 | smbpasswd -s -a candrew
    > # Mismatch - password unchanged.
    > # Unable to get new password.
    The password is needed twice. Try
    # ( echo chris01 ; echo chris01 ) | smbpasswd -s -a candrew
    
    Christian
    
    
    > 
    > Thanks,
    > Chris
    > 
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