utilities for active directory and smbpasswd

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:07:41PM -0800, Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> I've been thinking about the "netjoin" command that I have been
> working on for joining a kerberos realm. I think a better approach
> might be to extend your new "net" command to have a "net join"
> option. I'm also thinking we could use "net password" to replace the
> current smbpasswd command and maybe replace smbtree with "net view".
> 
> In general I think we have too many badly written and badly documented
> little utilities. By consolidating some of them into "net" and
> expanding on the builtin help for the net command I think we will end
> up with something that is more useful and consistent.
> 
> I think a first step would be to split net.c up a bit, with a separate
> file per command. eg. utils/net_session.c containing the code for just
> the "net session" command. Then we can start adding a few more
> commands like "net password" and I can add "net join". We would need
> options to say what sort of domain we are joining (NT4 or ADS).
> 
> What do you think? Right approach, or should we stick to lots of
> little utils?

It's the same approach as used on Windows, so should be familiar
to Windows admins. We could put the other utils in maintanence
mode when their functionality is added to 'net'.

Ask Gerry though, as he will be working on moving the docs :-) :-).

Jeremy.