[Samba] problems with smbpasswd

[ulairi]

Also, for the sheer fun of it, run ./smbpasswd with a -d 5 or something
like that. The debug messages may point out something that by default is
not seen.



On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 22:01, John H Terpstra wrote:
> David,
> 
> Find out what the correct path for your binary is by:
> 
> strings /usr/bin/smbpasswd | grep smbpasswd
> 
> if it is not there, then try:
> 
> strings /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd | grep smbpasswd
> 
> It should tell you where it is trying to create the smbpasswd file.
> 
> - John T.
> -- 
> John H Terpstra
> Email: jht at samba.org
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 
> I am having problems with smbpasswd.  I am getting the following error:
> 
> # smbpasswd -a dfrey
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> Failed to modify entry for user dfrey.
> Failed to modify password entry for user dfrey
> 
> dfrey is a valid system user
> dfrey:x:1002:1002:David Frey,,,:/home/dfrey:/bin/bash
> 
> I have searched google, but I haven't found an answer yet.  The
> /etc/samba/smbpasswd file is empty.  I created the file myself with
> touch.  Running the command with no file there makes no difference.
> 
> What can I try?