[Samba] What is samba-tool domain join --machine-pass
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Tue Nov 27 05:23:25 UTC 2018
On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 04:28 +0000, Barry D. Adkins via samba wrote:
> Samba-tool domain join ... --machine-pass
>
> -P, --machine-pass Use stored machine account password
>
> What does this do, mean or whatever? I want it to mean that I will specify a "machine password" for the samba-tool to use to put in the "secrets.ldb" file.
>
> Yet, I believe I am certain it has nothing or maybe almost nothing, to do with that, but what is the option for then?? Wiki/manual page inadequate I think.
This is the password it will use, rather than a random one, for the
trust account secret, stored in secrets.tdb/secrets.ldb.
I hope this clarifies things,
Andrew Bartlett
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