Bug 133608
| Summary: | smbpasswd -a user -s password | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | zebullon <fedora> |
| Component: | samba | Assignee: | Jay Fenlason <fenlason> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | CC: | jfeeney, nphilipp |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-11-02 16:22:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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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. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) 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: