problem with latest CVS

[Greg Dickie]

sounds right, I'm frequently using the LMhash and have not yet figured out
why...

oh the mysteries of NT...


Greg

On 08-Mar-99 David Bannon wrote:
> At 02:53 AM 09/03/1999 +1100, Greg Dickie wrote:
>>
>>Here's a silly one:
>>
>>  On friday I did a password change test, it worked but it put the
> following in
>>smbpasswd:
>>
>>greg:1124:BD790672A412A0FEAAD3B435B51404EE:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>:[U 
>>        ]:LCT-36DE76A3:
>>
> 
> Greg, looks like the same bug I have been discussing with Luke for a couple
> of weeks. Samba fails to authenticate with the NTHash method, tries LM
> method, seems to work. But as it no longer has a NTpassword it cannot
> rewrite the second passwd field so sets it to XXXX.., as intended. Next
> time it fails because of the XXXXs.
> 
> Might be worth confirming that your authentication (when changing passwd)
> is all defaulting to LMhash, see password.c/smb_password_ok(..)  (?)
> 
> David
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