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

[Sergio Rizzi]

On 24/03/14 17:09, Sergio Rizzi wrote:
> On 24/03/2014 17:00, Chan Min Wai wrote:
>> Just to ask
>>
>> Care to try
>>
>> 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 ?

Maybe using expect?





>>     On 20/03/2014 15:13, Sergio Rizzi wrote:
>>
>>         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')
>>