[Samba] smbpasswd batch mode

[Matthew Daubenspeck]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:09:13PM -0500, Craig Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to create a large number of users in the smbpasswd file.Is there a way to do this without having to type passwords? I need a batch mode. Using Samba 3.

# cat importusers.sh 
#!/bin/bash
datafile=userdata
line_count=`cat $datafile | wc -l`
filesystem="/dev/sda1"

for data in `seq $line_count`
do
  read data
  username=`echo $data | awk -F" " '{print $1}'`
  password=`echo $data | awk -F" " '{print $2}'`
  /usr/sbin/adduser -m -s /bin/false -p $password $username
  (echo $password; echo $password) | /usr/bin/smbpasswd -s -a $username
  /usr/sbin/setquota -u $username 0 1048576 0 0 -a $filesystem
  /bin/chmod 700 /home/$username
done < "$datafile"

# cat userdata 
user1 password1
user2 password2
etc etc

Take out or add as necessary :)

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