smbpasswd is the Samba encrypted password file. It contains the username,
Unix user id and the SMB hashed passwords of the user, as well as account
flag information and the time the password was last changed. This file format
has been evolving with Samba and has had several different formats in the
past.
The format of the smbpasswd file used by Samba 2.0 is very similar to the
familiar Unix passwd (5) file. It is an ASCII file containing one line for
each user. Each field within each line is separated from the next by a colon.
Any entry beginning with # is ignored. The smbpasswd file contains the
following information for each user:
The format of the smbpasswd file used by Samba 2.0 is very similar to the
familiar Unix passwd (5) file. It is an ASCII file containing one line for
each user. Each field within each line is separated from the next by a colon.
Any entry beginning with # is ignored. The smbpasswd file contains the
following information for each user: