[Samba] smbldap-useradd

[Scott Mayo]

I have my new servers up and going with Samba and LDAP on them.  Now I 
have to add my users.  Here is my problem.  I have written a perl script 
that reads a file and adds users to different groups depending on what 
grade they are in and it also generates a random password, that it 
exports to a master list.  The old script would add the user to unix and 
then to samba, along with the password of each user.  This made it easy 
for me to have our student records program to export all of their 
information and then run it through my perl script.

Now that I have switched over to Samba/ldap, I see no option to add the 
passwd in the command line.  It always prompts for the passwd.  Does 
anyone have a way that I can add the user and passwd?  The '-P' option 
in smbldap-useradd does not take a password in-line, but rather asks for 
it to be typed in.

The unix 'passwd' was the same way, but it had a switch '--stdin' so 
that I could pipe the passwd into it and the smbpasswd actually let you 
put the password in-line.

Thanks for any help.  I really do not want to have to enter all of these 
passwords by hand, and I also do not want them making their own.

-- 
Scott Mayo
Technology Coordinator
Bloomfield Schools
PH: 573-568-5669
FA: 573-568-4565
Pager: 800-264-2535 X2549

Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side and a dark side and it
holds the universe together.