I found the answer to my own question in the online RedHat manual for RedHat 8. The mksmbpasswd.sh script does not copy user passwords to the new smbpasswd file. It just enters the username, UID and then padds the hash fields with XXXX's.
To set each Samba user's password you must run the...
I am using Samba verion 3.00143, the default installation on a server running RedHat Enterprise Linux AS. The installation is in a school with over 600 users entered in the /etc/passwd file.
I am using user level security with encrypted passwords but cannot successfully migrate the /etc/passwd...
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