Thank you for filing this bug in Ubuntu. Samba needs its own user/password database because essentially the encryption mechanisms used during windows authentication are different from what Linux uses.
How and where to store these databases is configurable and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Some installations are happy with Samba's tdb local on disk database file. Others prefer to have users in LDAP. Even when using a single backend like LDAP, however, there are still separate attributes for windows and linux passwords. Or the authentication might be delegated to Kerberos. To create a samba user, it's usually not always just a matter of running "smbpasswd -a". It depends on the backend and on each site's policies. Furthermore, how would the samba package decide which users should be added to the Samba database? What's "active user"? There are way too many variables, and it's not Ubuntu's place to decide that. Samba is an application on top of Ubuntu, and how it's used is up to the administrator. ** Changed in: samba (Ubuntu) Status: New => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700588 Title: samba package should prompt the user to create a Samba password when first installed (or re-use their existing one) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1700588/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs