[Samba] Slackware 12.1 + Samba 3.0.28a + a lot of users

[Robert]

On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, Krzysztof,
>
> Du (krzys18) meintest am 08.07.08:
> > Now, I'm trying to convince Samba to let Win XP users to connect to
> > their home directories for example /raid/Users/user000001,
> > /raid/Users/user000002 etc. I have a lot of users (Slackware Unix
> > users in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow) so defining them with
> > "smbpasswd -a userNNNNNN" is impossible. Well, maybe it is possible
> > but... considering the number of users it would take too much time.
>
> If you don't want LDAP you have to use the "smbpasswd" way.
>
> (and LDAP leads to other problems ...)
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To help make things easier for me when I had to do it the "smbpasswd way" 
recently, I wrote an expect script. I had to add the users to passwd and 
create the directories, so there may be some extra stuff in here you don't 
need, but it should get you started. Comment out what you don't need. This 
requires expect and takes two arguments on the command line: the username and 
the password. Improvements are welcome.

For example, if I need to add user frank with password secret, call the script 
like this (as root):

<path to script>/<script name> frank secret

With the right shell script loop, this could be highly automated.

========Begin script=============
#!/usr/bin/expect -f

  set password [lindex $argv 1]
  set username [lindex $argv 0]
  spawn useradd $username
  sleep 1
  spawn mkdir /home/$username
  sleep 1
  spawn chown -R $username:$username /home/$username
  sleep 5
  spawn chmod 0770 -R /home/$username
  sleep 5
  spawn passwd [lindex $argv 0]
  expect {
        -re "password:" {sleep 1; send "$password\r"; exp_continue}
        -re "password:" {sleep 1; send "$password\r";}
}
  spawn mkdir /home/profiles/$username
  sleep 1
  spawn chown $username:$username /home/profiles/$username
  sleep 1
  spawn chown -R $username:$username /home/$username
  sleep 1
  spawn chmod 0770 -R /home/$username
  sleep 5
  spawn smbpasswd -a $username
  expect {
        -re "password:" {sleep 1; send "$password\r"; exp_continue}
        -re "password:" {sleep 1; send "$password\r";}
}
========End script=============

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