[Samba] Samba remote admin

[Andrew Bartlett]

Antony Healey wrote:
> 
> > > Is it possible to use Samba to tell Windows clients to shutdown or
> > > hibernate?
> >
> > In HEAD you can run 'net rpc shutdown -S ntbox -Uadmin%pass'.  In Samba
> > 2.2 I think rpcclient has the command.
> 
> With this, is the user%pass passed through encrypted, encoded or cleartext?

Firstly, you don't need to put it on the command line, if thats your
worry.  

The connection is a normal SMB connection, with the normal NT and LM
challange/response pairs.  The normal insecurity of sending the LM
response applies.

Andrew Bartlett

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