.TH MKSMBPASSWD 8 12-Apr-1998 .SH NAME mksmbpasswd \- formats a /etc/passwd entry for a smbpasswd file .SH SYNOPSIS mksmbpasswd cat /etc/passwd | /usr/sbin/mksmbpasswd > /etc/samba/smbpasswd .SH DESCRIPTION .B mksmbpasswd should be used only once, the first time Samba is installed. The idea is to ease accounts creation by transferring all user accounts from /etc/passwd to /etc/samba/smbpasswd. .PP Please note that passwords are not transferred automatically from /etc/passwd to the new /etc/samba/smbpasswd file. After running .B mksmbpasswd all accounts are disabled so the system administrator must run smbpasswd for each account that needs to be enable. .SH FILES .TP /etc/passwd System wide accounts file .TP /etc/samba/smbpasswd Encrypted passwords file for the Samba daemons .SH SEE ALSO samba(7), nmbd(8), smbd(8) .SH AUTHOR Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org> (man page based on sendmailconfig's man page by Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>)