Malformed Lanman password entry (non hex chars)
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at switchboard.net
Thu Mar 25 12:48:59 GMT 1999
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, David Krovich wrote:
> Ok, I'm having some weirdness going on....
>
> I'm creating a smbpasswd file consisting of just me using the
> following command:
>
> niscat passwd.org_dir | grep dkrovich | cut -f1-7 -d: | mksmbpasswd.sh > smbpasswd
>
> The output looks like this:
>
> dkrovich:3685:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:[U ]:LCT-00000000:David Krovich
>
> When I run smbpasswd on the user dkrovich as root to change the
> password, I get the following error. (Debug level is set to 10)
>
> # smbpasswd dkrovich
>
> <--lots of debugging cut out -->
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> search by name: dkrovich
> startfilepwent: opening file /sys/pdcsamba/private/smbpasswd
> getsmbfilepwent: Malformed Lanman password entry (non hex chars)
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i just spotted and fixed this myself. checkin later today.
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