[Samba] mass user creation

[Ilia Chipitsine]

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>> 1) how to do with ldiff file to put a user member of a group ?
>
> You have the gid specified so that will get your primary group, adding 
> secondary groups is not as easy though.  The secondary groups you are a 
> member of is stored in the group, via the multi-value property memberUID. 
> You'll have to ldapmodify the groups you want to be a member of with the 
> appropriate member's uid.
>
>> 2) Is there a solution to avoid this problem so that i also can generate 
>> mass user password ?
>
> You could pipe your script, depending on the language, into the smbpasswd 
> command.  I believe Jerry has posted something like this for a shell 
> language:
> echo $pass $pass > smbpasswd -a $username

smbpasswd also used to have an optional last parameter for user's 
password. which was never documented and recently has been removed :-(

>
> Also, you may want to leave off your samba parameters in the ldif, they will 
> get added by the smbpasswd command.
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