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lewis4u
Asked: 2017-04-15 12:43:09 +0800 CST

How to add user for samba share through a shell script

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Normally when i want to add a user for samba shared folder i use this command:

sudo smbpasswd -a <username>

and then this pops out

New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:

and now I want to do this in a script but so that it doesn't stop there and ask me to insert password

this is my script:

##################################################################
#!/bin/bash

mkdir /var/www/html/test

tee -a /etc/samba/smb.conf << EOF
[test]

comment = Test folder
path = /var/www/html/test
browsable = yes
valid users = tester
read only = no
EOF

smbpasswd -a tester
password
password

...How can i hard code the password?

command-line

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I have found the solution on my own from this website

    So the basic thing is that if you want to make a script for adding a specific user to the samba share goes like this:

    This part of script is 'standard' and doesn't need to be changed except for the path of the folder you want to share:

    ##################################################################
#!/bin/bash

# make a folder if it doesn't exist
[ ! -d /var/www/html/test ] && mkdir -p /var/www/html/test

# append these lines at the end of the /etc/samba/smb.conf file
tee -a /etc/samba/smb.conf << EOF
[test]

comment = Test folder
path = /var/www/html/test
browsable = yes
valid users = tester
read only = no
EOF

    and now if you want to:

    add an existing user: append this to the 'standard script' above:

    username='<existing_user_name>'
(echo "<password_for_user>"; sleep 1; echo "<password_for_user>" ) | sudo smbpasswd -s -a $username

    add a new user that doesn't exist in OS: append this to 'standard script' above:

    username='<new_user_name>'
useradd -m $username
(echo "<password_for_user>"; sleep 1; echo "<password_for_user>";) | passwd $username
(echo "<password_for_user>"; sleep 1; echo "<password_for_user>" ) | sudo smbpasswd -s -a $username
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