[Samba] Problem with "add user script"

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Jacob Martinson wrote:
| I just realized the strace attachment didn't go through.  It looks like
| smbpasswd exits as soon as it doesn't find a local account in
| /etc/passwd, not even attempting to add the account with the add user
| script...

Rigth.  This behavior is by design.  The 'add user script'
parameter is for smbd only.  If you ask smbd to create
the user ("net rpc user add" ... can't ever remember the
exact syntax"), it will call the script before create
the smbpasswd account.



cheers, jerry
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