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-3.0.6-2.3E 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:
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
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.