>Number: 99768
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] Handbook 25.9 make_smbpasswd is useless to mapping passwd
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jul 04 09:50:10 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Cheng-Lung Sung
>Release: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
FreeBSD @ Taiwan
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #9: Thu May 11 14:31:45 CST 2006 root@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw:/home/usr.obj/usr/src/sys/FREEBSD i386
>Description:
- /etc/passwd contains fake passwd, and encrypted passwd can not be
used for make_smbpasswd, too.
- also point the document url.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Index: network-servers/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.87
diff -u -r1.87 chapter.sgml
--- network-servers/chapter.sgml 25 Jun 2006 07:08:13 -0000 1.87
+++ network-servers/chapter.sgml 4 Jul 2006 09:34:36 -0000
@@ -4455,15 +4455,16 @@
backend is used, the
<filename>/usr/local/private/smbpasswd</filename> file must
be created to allow <application>Samba</application> to
- authenticate clients. If you would like to give all of
+ authenticate clients. If you would like to give
your &unix; user accounts access from &windows; clients, use the
following command:</para>
- <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>grep -v "^#" /etc/passwd | make_smbpasswd > /usr/local/private/smbpasswd</userinput>
-&prompt.root; <userinput>chmod 600 /usr/local/private/smbpasswd</userinput></screen>
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>smbpasswd -a username</userinput></screen>
- <para>Please see the <application>Samba</application>
- documentation for additional information about configuration
+ <para>Please see the
+ <ulink
+ url="http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/">Official Samba HOWTO</ulink>
+ for additional information about configuration
options. With the basics outlined here, you should have
everything you need to start running
<application>Samba</application>.</para>
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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