NAME

       mksmbpasswd - formats a /etc/passwd entry for a smbpasswd file

SYNOPSIS

       mksmbpasswd cat /etc/passwd | /usr/sbin/mksmbpasswd > /etc/samba/smbpasswd

DESCRIPTION

       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.

       Please  note  that  passwords  are  not  transferred  automatically   from   /etc/passwd   to   the   new
       /etc/samba/smbpasswd   file.   After  running  mksmbpasswd  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 ALSO

       samba(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)