[Samba] Password Resets as root

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 08:01:05AM -0500, John P Janosik wrote:
> The "net sam set pwdmustchangenow" works, thanks.  I see I can also use 
> "net user" to add the user instead of using pdbedit, but I need to 
> authenticate.  I'm trying to avoid authenticating so I'm hoping to stay 
> with pdbedit.  Since it is a bit deprecated, is it a bad idea for me to 
> use it?  Will it be removed in the next major release?

I always use smbpasswd -a for creating users.

Volker

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