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:
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.