[Samba] smbldap-useradd

[Scott Mayo]

Scott Mayo wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Well, looks like I might see the problem.  After checking the man pages 
for smbpasswd, it does not look like the passwword can be added to the 
command line anymore, unless I am missing something.

On my other samba server (the one I am getting ready to replace), I 
could do the following:

smbpasswd <username> <passwd>

I don't see where I can do that anymore in Samba-3.  Am I overlooking 
something?


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