Encrypted passwords really necessary for PDC ?

[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

WRONG -- mksmbpasswd only creates the file, but puts blank passwords in
it. As has been pointed out multiple times on this list and elsewhere,
there is no way to morph an /etc/passwd file into an smbpasswd file. You
have to set up one or another hack for keeping them in sync.

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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Ingo Kley wrote:

> > 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
>