[Samba] How to create users accounts with already encrypted passwords ?

[Francois.clemence at univ-metz.fr]

I don't have the plain password for creating users in Samba only Lanman Hash and NT hash from the text file !

C.


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> Clemence wrote:
> > Hi, i need to create users accounts into Samba with already encrypted
> > passwords from a file. I use tdbsam backend and Samba 3.0.24 (Debian Etch)
> > 
> > The file format is quite easy :
> > login1|Unix_passwd|Lanman Password Hash|NT Password Hash
> > 
> > First, i create the unix users with their already encrypted password :
> > useradd -p Unix_passwd login1.
> > Fine.
> > 
> > But can i do the same thing with smbpasswd or pdbedit ? I haven't found
> > anything about this.
> > How can i do ?
> 
> Look at the -s flag in man smbpasswd to accept STDIN as the input method
> for the password change. If I recall correctly, you end up with
> something like:
> 
> echo password\npassword\n | smbpasswd -s
> 
> Good?
> 
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