Use samba's "net" command without specifying a password?

[rslegers]

We're running Samba 3 as PDC on HP-UX 11.00 servers.
Is it possible, when logged on as root on the samba server, to use the "net" command without having to specify a password?

We need to use "net" in a configuration program, to automatically configure the users, without any user intervention.
Currently (for our tests) we supply a HARDCODED password on the command line, using the -U argument (net ... -U <user>%<password>). This is of course not a very elegant or secure option...
THX

 

[PHV]

You may play with the USER environment variable.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[rslegers]

Thanks for your reply, but that doesn't work for the net command: it still asks for the password.
I noticed however (in the man pages) that aside from USER there are also PASSWD and even PASSWD_FILE variables for certain samba commands.

For the net command only the PASSWD variable seems to work: I put the password in PASSWD and indeed, the net command didn't ask for the password anymore. This gives us an alternative solution, but it still isn't ideal: we still have to hardcode the password.

So, my question remains...