Bug 136625

Summary:	smbpasswd -a user -s password
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Mario Heininger <mario>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	jfeeney, nphilipp, skutzke
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Description Mario Heininger 2004-10-21 09:50:04 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-3.0.6-2.3E

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
    

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


Additional info:

Comment 1 Stefan Kutzke 2004-10-21 10:46:10 UTC

same problem with samba-common-3.0.7-1.3E

Workaround:
- create a file that contains the password two times
- use file instead of stdin:
  smbpasswd -a -s user < file
- not very nice, but works

Comment 2 Nils Philippsen 2004-11-02 16:22:54 UTC

command line != stdin, the command behaves as expected and documented
-- you actually attach your file to stdin ("... < file") ;-). 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.