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The smbpasswd manual state the following:

"Note that the default passdb backends require the user to already exist in the system password file (usually /etc/passwd), else the request to add the user will fail."

Source: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbpasswd.8.html

My question is that which are the default passdb backends?

  • smbpasswd?
  • tdbsam?
  • ldapsam?
fektom
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default file to store pass is trival database file /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb you can change in by passdb backend option in smb.conf.

There is more info about password backends: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html

default samba need to user exist in system, and check if it exist in /etc/passwd but this file don't contain passwords.

Krzysztof Stasiak
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