Re: smbpasswd vs pbdedit?
Kent West wrote:
So, I've completely removed the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file; this may
result in some "issues", but so far, it looks like perhaps this file
has been deprecated. Now I'll go see if I can find any actual
documentation to this effect.
Yes, apparently the file has been deprecated:
All the old advice about using something like `smbpasswd -a root`
isn't relevant, both because smbpasswd is deprecated in Samba 3.x and
because most Samba-LDAP systems are configured to look _only_ to LDAP
for their "passdb backend" and so never see the information you tried
to set up through `smbpasswd`.
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2006-June/121560.html
After learning this, I did some more testing, and it looked like the
pdbedit database was not being updated by the utility, but either I've
forgotten what I was seeing, or there was a time-lag delay between using
the utility to make changes and using the utility to see those changes,
or something just magically started working, or I'm going crazy, 'cause
now everything seems to be functional.
Go figure.
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Kent West <")))><
http://kentwest.blogspot.com
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