[Samba] pam_smbpass Guidance

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

> ...my assumption is that in this case, the password change will take
> care of the creation/password changing of the smbpasswd entry. However,
> what about accounts that are in our /etc/passwd already? Does
> pam_smbpass update passwords in smbpasswd WITHOUT encrypted passwords
> turned on (something akin to 'update encrypted'), or must I turn
> encryption on FIRST, thus making it impossible for any user to log onto
> a lab PC (and therefore not allowing them to access any other means of
> logging into the machine?)

See "update encrypted" in smb.conf(5) for some possible ideas.




cheers, jerry
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