On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:28 PM, jools wrote:
Hi all,
I have a script that I wish to implement for adding users and samba
users in
bulk. I'm running Samba 3.0.13 on Mandriva LE2005 although the script
dates
back to samba 2 days.
The script works by reading the user's name, password and group from a
text
file, first generating Unix user accounts and then running:
/usr/bin/smbpasswd -a -s $user $pwd > /dev/null
to add the smb accounts. The -s switch should allow the Samba password
to
pulled from stdin instead of a prompt but the scipt just exits at the
point
of attempting the creation of the first Samba account . Is there any
difference between Samba 2 and Samba 3 that would explain this?
On my RedHat ES 3 system, running 3.09 or so I recall, smbpasswd -s
means silent, but it still expects the password confirmation. Perhaps
you could make a here document
#!/bin/bash
#create unix user
/usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false (etc,etc) -p $password $user
#create samba user
/usr/bin/smbpasswd -a -s $user <<LimitString
echo $password
echo $password
LimitString
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