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smbpasswd — Add/remove a Samba user or change its password. Samba users must have an existing local Unix account

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Problem

How to use the smbpasswd command: Add/remove a Samba user or change its password. Samba users must have an existing local Unix account. More information: <https://manned.org/smbpasswd.8>.

Solution

smbpasswd — Add/remove a Samba user or change its password. Samba users must have an existing local Unix account. More information: <https://manned.org/smbpasswd.8>.

Change the current user's SMB password:

smbpasswd

Add a specified user to Samba and set password (user should already exist in system):

sudo smbpasswd -a {{username}}

Modify an existing Samba user's password:

sudo smbpasswd {{username}}

Delete a Samba user (use pdbedit instead if the Unix account has been deleted):

sudo smbpasswd -x {{username}}

Code Snippets

Change the current user's SMB password

smbpasswd

Add a specified user to Samba and set password (user should already exist in system)

sudo smbpasswd -a {{username}}

Modify an existing Samba user's password

sudo smbpasswd {{username}}

Delete a Samba user (use `pdbedit` instead if the Unix account has been deleted)

sudo smbpasswd -x {{username}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/smbpasswd

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