Kent West wrote: > Hi all! > According to the Encryption.txt doc file for Samba, the command to > create the encrypted password file is: > cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd > but when I run this I can a error: > bash: mksmbpasswd.sh: command not found > > Is the documentation wrong, or am I missing a file? I've tried to > "locate mksmbpasswd*" but found nothing. > > Also, doesn't this copy the /etc/password file? But if I'm running > shadow passwords, doesn't that mean the encrypted file won't be able to > find the passwords?
Right, the samba password file *won't* get the passwords. However, it can't *use* the unix passwords either so this is a non-issue. You have to create all the samba passwords by hand using smbpasswd. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
