On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:34:58PM +0100, ebirn-lists wrote: > hi all! > > i have a question concerning samba > at the installation configuration the system's users are all added to the > /etc/samba/smbpasswd file > i deleted them accidentally and ow i'm looking for a way to restore this. > the mksmbpasswd man-page was not very useful to me > it might also be important that i use shadow/md5 passwords i think (its been awhile) mksmbpasswd works something like this: cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd > /etc/samba/smbpasswd or maybe its just mksmbpasswd > /etc/samba/smbpasswd. that part is really easy, just play with it a bit. the hard/annoying part is there is no way to convert the hashed passwords in /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd into samba hashs, so you have to manually run smbpasswd for each user you need enabled in /etc/samba/smbpasswd. by default all users have locked accounts for samba (XXXXX... for a password hash) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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