Re: smbpasswd won't create smbpasswd file
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 05:28:51PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Aniruddha (mailingdotlist@gmail.com):
> > I noticed that running '# smbpasswd -a root' won't create a smbpasswd
> > file in /etc/samba or anywhere else. This appears to be a bug in
> > backports samba package.
>
> Since when?
>
> Can you reproduce this on an unstable machine (I have weird problems
> locally with smbpasswd but I wonder wheter this is a local
> configuration problem or something much more worrying: in short
> "smbpasswd <user>" ran as root just stays for ages after typing the
> password and its confirmation).
This is probably too stupid to be the problem, but when running
'# smbpasswd -a root', did you type the '#'? Isn't that the comment
character?
-- hendrik
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