How can I pipe the new password to smbpasswd so I can automate my installation process.
This unfortunately is not desirable for two reasons:
A better way would be to put the names in a file and read from the file and use python pexpect to read them, not like below, but the simple script is enough to see how to use pexpect
#!/usr/bin/python
#converted from: http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/pexpect.html
#child = pexpect.spawn('scp foo [email protected]:.')
#child.expect ('Password:')
#child.sendline (mypassword)
import pexpect
import sys
user=sys.argv[1]
passwd=sys.argv[2]
child = pexpect.spawn('/usr/bin/smbpasswd -a '+str(user))
child.expect('New SMB password:')
child.sendline (passwd)
child.expect ('Retype new SMB password:')
child.sendline (passwd)
then try: ./smbpasswd.py userName1 'f#@(&*(_\n895'
I had to create a new Samba user in a Puppet 5.x Exec resource and for various reasons none of the above worked. Fortunately this rather silly-looking command worked:
yes vagrant|head -n 2|smbpasswd -a -s vagrant
Password here is of course "vagrant".