[Samba] Re: using smbpasswd noninteractively?

[paul k]

Gémes Géza wrote:

> paul k írta:
> 
>> hi folks,
>>
>> I'd like to use smbpasswd without getting promted for the pw, there is 
>> the -s switch making smbpasswd read from stdin but it still wants to 
>> have the pw twice and two "returns". I tried  feeding it with "passwd 
>> \r passwd \r" and calling smbpasswd from python using os.popen2() and 
>> writing to the "stdin" file object but everything failed so far.
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> thx
>>   Paul
>>
>>
> Have you looked at mkntpwd too?
Found, thanks.

Paul
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> Geza Gemes
>