Bug 133608

Summary: smbpasswd -a user -s password
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: zebullon <fedora>
Component: sambaAssignee: Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 2CC: jfeeney, nphilipp
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Description zebullon 2004-09-25 08:20:16 UTC
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Description of problem:
smbpasswd doesn't accept -s option tu use stdin for password prompt.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
samba-common-3.0.7-2.FC2.i386.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.upgrade rpm to samba-common-3.0.7-2.FC2.i386.rpm
2.create an unix user 'user1'
3.smbpassd -a user1 -s password
    

Actual Results:  The help message is return and the user isn't added.

Expected Results:  user should be added in /etc/samba/smbpasswd

Additional info:

Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2004-11-02 16:22:52 UTC
command line != stdin, the command behaves as expected and documented.
What you would have to do were something like this (in shell):

(echo password; echo password) | smbpasswd -a user1 -s

In fact, you really don't want that password to appear in the list of
processes, so take care that you don't call an external executable
with the password on the command line.