Disabling LM authentication
David Collier-Brown
David.Collier-Brown at canada.sun.com
Tue Nov 28 12:38:48 GMT 2000
Gerald Carter wrote:
> I never said it was perfect. :-) It only addresses
> the brute forcing of lanman passwords in the event that
> somone gets you smbpasswd file.
>
> In the light of this I can see where DCB's patch would
> be useful now. I'll talk to Jeremy and stick it in.
However, subsequent discussion shows
that it won't really help this case...
We need a specific "no lanman hashes" mechanism
that doesn't break clients. Anyone care to
suggest a good way to do that?
--dave
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