Generating lmPassword and ntPassword values with openssl?
Jon L.Gardner
jon at food.tamu.edu
Thu Feb 7 21:48:04 GMT 2002
Generating a standard UNIX password hash with openssl is straightforward:
openssl passwd -crypt <plaintext_password>
Is there a way to do the same thing to generate the lmPassword and
ntPassword values to store in an LDAP server, so that Samba can
authenticate off of it?
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Jon L. Gardner '89, Computer Systems Manager <mailto:jon at food.tamu.edu>
Texas A&M University Dept. of Food Services <http://food.tamu.edu/>
Tel 979.458.1839 * Fax 979.845.2157 * Hip 979.229.4323
PGP public key available at <http://food.tamu.edu/pgp/jon.html>
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