MKSMBPASSWD(8)MKSMBPASSWD(8)NAMEmksmbpasswd - formats a /etc/passwd entry for a smbpasswd file
SYNOPSISmksmbpasswd cat /etc/passwd | /usr/sbin/mksmbpasswd > /etc/samba/smb‐
passwd
DESCRIPTIONmksmbpasswd 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.
Please note that passwords are not transferred automatically from
/etc/passwd to the new /etc/samba/smbpasswd file. After running mksmb‐
passwd all accounts are disabled so the system administrator must run
smbpasswd for each account that needs to be enable.
FILES
/etc/passwd
System wide accounts file
/etc/samba/smbpasswd
Encrypted passwords file for the Samba daemons
SEE ALSOsamba(7), nmbd(8), smbd(8)AUTHOR
Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org> (man page based on sendmailconfig's
man page by Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>)
12-Apr-1998 MKSMBPASSWD(8)