[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug in pdbedit

[Joao Luis Meloni Assirati]

Hello,

I am installing samba (3.2.0)  in my new to be etch server. I chose tdbsam, as 
Debian recommend this now, hoping that a migration smbpasswd->tdbsam would be 
fully documented an easilly found in Debian's docs, but that turned out not 
to be the case. Struglling with google, I found the following:  backup your 
old smbpasswd (in /root/smbpasswd.backup for instance) and run

pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/root/smbpasswd.backup

Nothing happened. No user was added, no password was changed. I had precisely 
zero error messages. The return status was a bright 0. Running  

pdbedit -v -i smbpasswd:/root/smbpasswd.backup

showed the same merciless results. Now I am wondering if the bug is in pdbedit 
not doing what it is supposed to do, in Debian's doc for not properly 
instructing people, or in Debian's default configuration  for recommending a 
broken, alpha quality password backend.

Or I may be using pdbedit the wrong way.

I also tried

pdbedit -v -i smbpasswd:/root/smbpasswd.backup -e tdbsam

but got again only nothing.

In case this message gets an answer, please CC me as I am not in the list.

João Luis Meloni Assirati.