UNIX PASSWD SYNC/changing password on NT workstation

[Lisa Becktold {CADIG STAFF}]

Luke:

Help!  Now I am really confused.

Do I have to use plaintext passwords on the NT workstation in order
for "unix passwd sync" to work on the Samba PDC/NIS master?

An NT server will NOT authenticate an NT workstation or user unless
encrypted passwords are used, right?

I know that I can change my smbpasswd password from the NT workstation
just fine when "unix passwd sync" is NOT set.   The NT workstation's
registry has been altered to send plaintext passwords - it sends
the default encrypted password when I log into the Samba domain.

But I can't change either my smbpasswd or /var/yp/passwd entry when
I have "unix passwd sync" set on the Samba PDC/NIS master.

Are you guys saying I have to use plaintext passwords on the NT
workstation side in order to enable "unix password sync"?

THANKS

Lisa 
> Originator: samba-ntdom at samba.org
> From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at switchboard.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
> Subject: Re: UNIX PASSWD SYNC/changing password on NT workstation
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> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:10:30 +1000
> 
> > example situation: you're on a Windows NT workstation and you change
> > your password. does it send the changed password as plaintext over the
> > wire the first time, and is it encrypted from then on?
> 
> user must be added to domain by admin.  first time, therefore, usrmgr.exe
> rpcclient or net.exe is used to set user's password.
> 
> thereafter, user changes password from nt: plaintext unicode password is
> encrypted with old password hash as key.
> 

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