Re: smbpasswd won't create smbpasswd file

[Aniruddha <mailingdotlist@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle@debian.org):
>> 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).
>
>
> There are some tdb file conversion operations that seem to happen,
> even on my unstable machine. I can't tell much more yet.
>
> CC'ing the package development mailing list.
>
>
Apparently no matter what you choose with debconf, samba in Debian
always uses the tdbsam password database instead of smbpasswd.