[Samba] Password change via samba-tool: encoding issue

[Sergio Rizzi]

On 24/03/2014 17:00, Chan Min Wai wrote:
> Just to ask
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> Care to try
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> samba-tool user setpassword foo
>
> and type the password in command line?
>
> Your "�" seem to be not supported... as password

Using keyboard input seems to work.

How to fix using --newpassword ?




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> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Sergio Rizzi <sergio.rizzi at labs.it
> <mailto:sergio.rizzi at labs.it>> wrote:
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>     On 20/03/2014 15:13, Sergio Rizzi wrote:
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>         root at samba4dc:~# samba-tool user setpassword "foo" --newpassword="�"
>         ERROR: Failed to set password for user 'foo': 'utf8' codec can't
>         decode
>         byte 0xa8 in position 1: invalid start byte
>             File
>         "/usr/local/samba-4.1.6/lib/__python2.7/site-packages/samba/__netcmd/user.py",
>         line 586, in run
>               username=username)
>             File
>         "/usr/local/samba-4.1.6/lib/__python2.7/site-packages/samba/__samdb.py",
>         line 476, in setpassword
>               pw = unicode('"' + password + '"',
>         'utf-8').encode('utf-16-le')
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>         How to fix it?
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>     Any hint?
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