[Samba] Simple question regarding smbpasswd

[David Markey]

On Mon, 11 May 2009 10:36:49 -0700 (PDT), Pete Clapham
<peteclapham at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hi, all --
> 
> I want to add SMB passwords using a script.  It would appear that some
> variant on the following:
> 
> smbpasswd -a -s <newusername>
> 
> would work.  However, the syntax of the -s option isn't clear.  How do
I
> insert the password of the new user into the script?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> cheers,
> pete


echo -e "newpassword\nnewpassword\n" | smbpasswd -a -s dmarkey