Author Topic: chpasswd for samba (Read 3291 times)

b1ackmai1er · « **on:** April 18, 2011, 06:41:45 AM »

Is it possible to have a chpasswd for samba. i.e chsmbpasswd so we can change samba passwords in batch files

thanks

curaga · « **Reply #1 on:** April 18, 2011, 08:19:59 AM »

danielibarnes · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2011, 12:10:13 PM »

http://syslog.warten.de/verbose/2010/05/chsmbpasswd.html

That script was a bit primitive, here is a smaller equivalent:
while read x; do u=${x%:*}; p=${x#*:}; echo $p$'\n'$p|smbpasswd -s -a $u; done

b1ackmai1er · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2011, 08:24:40 AM »

Thanks guys!

Thats so cool.

b1ackmai1er · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2011, 09:10:53 AM »

Hi Again,

for simplicity, is there a way of doing this inline?

Thanks

danielibarnes · « **Reply #5 on:** April 20, 2011, 03:36:06 PM »

Hi Again,

for simplicity, is there a way of doing this inline?

Thanks

What do you mean, "inline?" You can save it as a script, say /usr/local/bin/chsmbpasswd, and make it executable with chmod +x chsmbpasswd.

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