passwords

[Jean Francois Micouleau]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Sander Striker wrote:

> Hmmm, interesting point. Let's do some creative thinking.
> Is there a way to set the password in smbpasswd (or the
> samr db) the first time a user ever logs in? Meaning that
> if a user is marked [first time user], his password is
> checked in an alternative way(using pam?), and setting the
> password to this value if it is correct. Luke?

added to samba at least 2 years ago: update encrypted password in
smb.conf. It means you have to disable encypted password on the windows
box as you need the clear text password to check against anything other
than the NT/LM hashes.

> There is a transitional fase parameter built into samba for
> such cases... (mind is really making squeeking sounds now :-)
> some faint memory tells me. It might however be disabled by
> now, it was a pretty long time ago. :-)
> 
> Sander
>