nt password change in samba

Tavis Barr tavis at mahler.econ.columbia.edu
Mon Oct 19 18:36:41 GMT 1998



On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> .. has been added.  this is a slightly more secure password change than
> the win95 version: it uses the previous nt hash to encrypt the new
> clear-text password instead of the win95 version using the lm hash.

So does this mean we can now change the password on the NT boxes?  Will 
it still not work for systems that don't compile with 
-DALLOW_CHANGE_PASSWORD?  (I guess I'm being picky.  Congratulations on 
getting this done).

Thanks,
Tavis



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