Samba passwd smbpasswd and tdbsam

Some commands to convert samba backend password-databases.

If you use “passdb backend = smbpasswd” in your smb.conf you must convert your system-user accounts to smbpasswd:

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

If you use “passdb backend = tdbsam” in your smb.conf you must convert your system-user accounts to passdb.tdb:

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pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd -e tdbsam:/etc/samba/passdb.tdb