smbpasswd ?

[Andrew Bartlett]

Herb Lewis wrote:
> 
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >
> 
> > For reasons of extreme frustration (been bitten by this one...)
> > smbpasswd (in non-root mode) takes the command line argument as the new
> > password...
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
> >
> 
> This is extremely confusing to people but definitely intentional if you
> look at the code. I think we need to rewrite the man page to show
> different syntax for root users and normal users because some of
> the other options don't quite work as you would expect in non-root mode.
> 
> Also there is a -L option in the code that isn't documented in the
> man page.

-L is an ugly hack to allow for 'root mode' functionality without being
root.  I now develop samba almost entirly in 'non-root-mode' - becouse I
can then gdb etc without messing with root.  (smbd is lauched from
identd in this case).  Its also used to power the 'build farm'.

Andrew Bartlett

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