[Bug 1700588] Re: samba package should prompt the user to create a Samba password when first installed (or re-use their existing one)

[Nate Graham]

I understand. However, everything you say is much more applicable in a
server/IT/business setting than home use. With my IT Consultant hat on,
you're absolutely right, but with my Home User hat on, it's all
irrelevant. I just want file sharing to work when Samba is installed
*after* user creation without having to use the command-line or fiddle
with configuration files.

If you think that resolving this issue is out of scope here, I
understand and will open bugs on client software like Nautilus and
Dolphin (already filed: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381688)

Alternatively, would it make sense to have Samba installed by default,
so that initial user creation can populate the Samba user/password
database that that information immediately?

** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #381688
   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381688

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Title:
  samba package should prompt the user to create a Samba password when
  first installed (or re-use their existing one)

Status in samba package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  Kubuntu 17.04
  Samba 2:4.5.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.17.04.2

  Ubuntu's samba package doesn't set a samba password for the active
  user once installed.

  This leaves the user with a non-functional samba installation unless
  the user manually runs `smpasswd -a <user>` (bad user experience) or
  their GUI file manager notices this condition and does it for them
  (fragmentation and inconsistency among clients).

  
  The package's installation should somehow trigger a prompt to create a Samba password--or better yet, have Samba re-use the user's existing login password, if that's possible.

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