From 55abd936a838a4410899db76cb5530b0c4694dc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Carter Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:19:10 +0000 Subject: mega-merge from 2.2 (This used to be commit c76bf8ed3275e217d1b691879153fe9137bcbe38) --- docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.8.html | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.8.html') diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.8.html b/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.8.html index 1c4df51941..be82bc8809 100644 --- a/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.8.html +++ b/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.8.html @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ NAME="AEN5" >

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smbpasswd -- change a users SMB passwordsmbpasswd -- change a user's SMB password
smbpasswd [-a] [-x] [-d] [-e] [-D debuglevel] [-n] [-r <remote machine>] [-R <name resolve order>] [-m] [-j DOMAIN] [-U username] [-h] [-s] [username]

[-a] [-x] [-d] [-e] [-D debuglevel] [-n] [-r <remote machine>] [-R <name resolve order>] [-m] [-j DOMAIN] [-U username[%password]] [-h] [-s] [username]

By default (when run with no arguments) it will attempt to - change the current users SMB password on the local machine. This is + change the current user's SMB password on the local machine. This is similar to the way the passwd(1) file.

When run by an ordinary user with no options. smbpasswd - will prompt them for their old smb password and then ask them + will prompt them for their old SMB password and then ask them for their new password twice, to ensure that the new password was typed correctly. No passwords will be echoed on the screen - whilst being typed. If you have a blank smb password (specified by + whilst being typed. If you have a blank SMB password (specified by the string "NO PASSWORD" in the smbpasswd file) then just press the <Enter> key when asked for your old password.

If the smbpasswd file is in the 'old' format (pre-Samba 2.0 - format) there is no space in the users password entry to write + format) there is no space in the user's password entry to write this information and so the user is disabled by writing 'X' characters into the password space in the smbpasswd file. See

debuglevel

This option causes smbpasswd to be silent (i.e. - not issue prompts) and to read it's old and new passwords from + not issue prompts) and to read its old and new passwords from standard input, rather than from /dev/tty