[Samba] smbldap-useradd

[Scott Mayo]

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Scott Mayo schrieb:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Did you see LAM - LDAP Account Manager - http://lam.sf.net ?
> 
> It's pretty good for managing the domain users, machines, groups etc. 
> You can really fine tune everything there (password expiration, paths, 
> etc.).
> 
> Give it a try, it's a nice tool.
> 

Looks like I would still need something for my script to access to do my 
batch add.  I really would rather stay away from any kind of GUI if I 
could.  Thanks.


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