[Samba] Help removing many users

[Rune Tønnesen]

Hi Ryan

Why don't you migrate your smbpasswd file to tdb?

This could be done

pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd -e tdbsam:/etc/samba/smbpasswd.tdb

in smb.conf change "passdb backend" to
passdb backend = tdbsam:/etc/samba/smbpasswd.tdb

voila

-- 
Rune Tønnesen
Venlig Hilsen/Best Regards


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> Mike Eggleston wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008, Ryan Novosielski might have said:
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>>> Can anyone brighter than me think of an easy way to remove MANY users
>>> from an smbpasswd file (I have a list of users that can be removed, some
>>> of which may already be missing, some of which may be present)? I cannot
>>> use smbpasswd -x in a loop. Is there some easy way to do this?
>>
>> I'm aware that you cannot use smbpasswd in a loop creating the accounts
>> because you have to type in the password, but removing the accounts? What's
>> the issue with using smbpasswd in a loop to remove the accounts?
>
> I actually thought of something that will work for this, but the
> background of my situation is that my smbpasswd file has gotten too
> large. It has gotten so large that it actually cannot be changed because
> it is always locked for reading (too many clients, too large a file).
> Therefore, I currently cannot change the file so smbpasswd -x fails.
>
> What I'm trying now, that is working but is painfully slow, is copying
> the smbpasswd file elsewhere and acting on the copy with smbpasswd -c
> and -x. It will probably run half a day to remove thousands of people,
> but we'll see.
>
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