Two stage login

[Gerald Carter]

Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> 
> It doesn't gain us anything though. The MS clients don't do 
> this, so for Samba as a server it is useless and when Samba 
> is the client its useless because if the client knows the 
> plain text password then the encryption try won't fail (as 
> its a simple mapping from plain text to encrypted).

I think the original intent from the poster was to be able 
to try to logon against the smbpasswd file, and if that 
failes to try the plain text against /etc/passwd (which 
can have a different password).







Cheers, jerry
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