Password sync

Chris Garrigues cwg-samba-ntdom at DeepEddy.Com
Wed Jul 19 23:20:05 GMT 2000


> From:  Jeremy Allison <jeremy at valinux.com>
> Date:    Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:05:42 +1000
>
> The second problem is not the NT password hash but the
> legacy lanman hash which is usually stored with the
> more secure NT hash.
> 
> The lanman hash *is* trivial and brute forcible, and
> this makes the security of the NT hash irrelevent, as
> you only need to brute force the lanman one.

So, if I took the lmpassword entry out of my ldap database, what would no 
longer work?

Chris

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