Encrypted passwords really necessary for PDC ?
Ingo Kley
Ingo.Kley at lampebank.de
Wed Jan 27 14:01:31 GMT 1999
> Subject: Encrypted passwords really necessary for PDC ?
> Hello,
> I'm trying to switch our old "share-only" setup of SAMBA to a PDC
> configuration and migrating all our W95 clients to NT/WS, trying to
> make them secure.
[...]
> - if I use encrypted passwords, Samba will only get those from
> smbpassword and not from Unix /etc/passwd or NIS map, right ? How can
> I "copy" my user's passwords from the NIS map to smbpasswd ? I've read
> things along the lines of "running for a while with cleartext
> passwords" on this list but I don't get it yet.
> >
Hello,
it works like this:
cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh >/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
After this, the new file smbpasswd includes the passwords.
If you are running NIS try this:
ypcat passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
Bye
Ingo Kley
Westerfeldstr. 140B
33613 Bielefeld
Tel 0521/986843
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