Hi ,

We have to transfer from an RH 7.2 samba server to a suse 9.3 samba server.
There are about 200 user accounts (all are samba users , and are defined both in passwd and smbpasswd).

We would like to recreate all users without too much work (ie avoiding useradd+passwd+smbpasswd for each).

We are OK to type once for each user: name and password.

We wrote a small perl script to do this , it writes a file containins twice the password followed by <LF> ,
and cat's this file to a pipe to smbpasswd ... and works.

We then tried to do same thing with useradd (OK) and passwd , we have the message 'Reenter password' but then Password change aborted,
Authentification token manipulation error ... and password is not set.

We tried then to use useradd with -p option , but could not crypt the password to set in -p option.

Tried: openssh password , mkpasswd , grub-md-crypt none of them gives the right password seen in /etc/shadow when created by
passwd.

Thanks for any better idea..

J.Bratières

check this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ighlight=crypt

Thanks a lot .... it works...

I had searched the forum but missed this thread..


J.Bratieres