Bug#443209: Some more info

[s.db@farneticando.it]

Hello,

the bug is related to syntax change of smbpasswd: starting from samba version 
3.0.8 it no longer accepts password on command line, like kcmsamba seems to 
call it when adding new user or changing user password.

A quick and dirty workaround could be:

dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert /usr/bin/smbpasswd.real /usr/bin/smbpasswd

and place in /usr/bin/smbpasswd this script:

8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------
#!/bin/bash

if [ "$#" -eq 3 -a "$1" = "-a" -a -n "$2" -a -n "$3" ]; then
        # Wrap
        /bin/echo -e "$3\n$3\n" | /usr/bin/smbpasswd.real -s -a "$2"
else
        # No wrap
        /usr/bin/smbpasswd.real "$@"
fi

exit $?
8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------

Except for security considerations about passing passwords on command line 
(you warned!), in this way kcmsamba should work

HTH,
S.
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