[Pkg-samba-maint] smbpasswd won't create smbpasswd file

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle at debian.org):
> Quoting Aniruddha (mailingdotlist at gmail.com):
> > I noticed that running '# smbpasswd -a root' won't create a smbpasswd
> > file in /etc/samba or anywhere else. This appears to be a bug in
> > backports samba package.
> 
> Since when?
> 
> Can you reproduce this on an unstable machine (I have weird problems
> locally with smbpasswd but I wonder wheter this is a local
> configuration problem or something much more worrying: in short
> "smbpasswd <user>" ran as root just stays for ages after typing the
> password and its confirmation).


There are some tdb file conversion operations that seem to happen,
even on my unstable machine. I can't tell much more yet.

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