Smb passwords > 8 chars

Olaf Flebbe o.flebbe at science-computing.de
Thu Nov 28 09:29:01 GMT 2002


Hi,

samba 2.2.7

A samba server with encrypted paawords on Solaris8 does not correctly handle 
passwords containing more than eight characters. A local smbclient can correctly 
handle this situation, but NT 4.0 and W2K cannot connect to a share protected 
with encrypted password 9 chars long. The newly ported LynxOS Server shows the 
same problem ;-)

Samba servers on Linux/ix86, Freebsd/x86, IRIX 6.5, HPUX 11, AIX 4.3 does not 
show this problem.

The smbpasswd file of account with an password "aphrodite" looks like this on 
Solaris and LynxOS:

xx:55555:CB9B5D52CBF7BC80417EAF50CFAC29C3:E91112581298671EAD07824AE921468A:[UX 
        ]:LCT-3DE5D705:

on the other OS'es it looks like:

xx:55555:CB9B5D52CBF7BC80CEC18980D4FFADA7:0121676CCD7DF90E0D4269315DC0A151:[UX 
        ]:LCT-3DE5D6FC:

Or have I missed a crucial patch on Solaris8? It is on a quite recent 
maintenance release.

Olaf
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