Default encrypted passwords

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Sep 27 12:11:03 GMT 2001


On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, John E. Malmberg wrote:

> Removing the plain text passwords from an SMB network only eliminates
> the probability that someone could use those same passwords to attack
> other protocols.

Also I should point that NTLMv1 is vunerable to man-in-the-middle
attacks :-)




cheers, jerry
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