Two diffs to add paramater self-checking

[Gerald Carter]

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, David Collier-Brown wrote:

> Gerald Carter wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > 
> > > To restate:  "unix password sync = yes" and "encrypt passwords = no" is
> > > a valid combination.
> > 
> > OK.  I'll bite.  This might for for NT clients, but it won't for win9x
> > right.  Since we have upper cased passwords, there's no way of knowing
> > what the user intended the password to be (for the old and new passwords).
> > You could brute force the old password against the local hash in
> > /etc/passwd but this seems like such a waste.
> 
>   How about wording such as:
> 	Warning: NT client machines will be able to update
> 	both Unix and Windows passwords, but Windows 95/98/ME
> 	machines will not be able to keep the two in sync
> 	unless they have the "EnablePlainTextPassword"
> 	flag set in their registry.
> Or does the uppercasing behavior make it even eviler? (;-)) 

Think about this for a second.  If i send you the password
"SECRET", how dfo you know that I intended the original
string to be 'sEcrEt' ?






cheers, jerry
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