migrating to encrypted passwords

[Joel Hammer]

Never having tried this, I have always thought that using an include
directive, based on the archiecture (%a) or the ip (%I) of the machine
logging in would be a way around this.
Joel


On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:32:40AM +0100, Sentient Organism wrote:
> I have an old Samba network that uses unencrypted passwords. At the time,
> the posts were running win95. These days they are running win98 for the
> most part, but introducing new machines onto the network means fiddling
> with the EnablePlainTextPassword registry key.
> 
> So currently, all the machines use plain-text passwords. I want to modify
> them all to use encrypted passwords. Naturally, I want to do this as
> easily (i.e., over a period of time) as possible.
> 
> I thought the [update encrypted] setting would help me, but obviously I
> have misunderstood its purpose. I have it set to 'yes', and [encrypt
> passwords] is set to 'no'.
> 
> So I thought that once this was done, I would be able to edit my registry
> key and set my PC to send an encrypted password. However, when I did
> this, Samba refused to authenticate me, until I re-edited the registry
> key to send plain-text.
> 
> Can someone kindly clue me in as to how this is supposed to work?
> 
> thanks,
> D.
> 
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