Samba 3.0.5 mksmbpasswd.sh

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Paul Boot wrote:

| My question relates to mksmbpasswd.sh. I get the
| impression there were  security flaws in this upto
| version 3.0.2(?) but cannot trace anything
| about fixes for these in the Whatsnew files.
|
| On my setup I am running on Solaris 8.0  I created
| a user on unix named  tester and then converted the
| NIS+ passwd table into smbpasswd format.
|
| The entry for tester
|
|
tester:254:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:[DU

|         ]:LCT-00000000:tester
|
| seems not to have picked the correct settings.
|
| smbclient //ard.ref.collins.co.uk/projects
| Password:
|
| session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

Paul,

please post general help questions to the samba at samba.org ml.
Also you have misunderstood the purpose of mksmbpasswd.sh.
It is impossible to convert UNIX password hashes to LM/NT
password hashes (w/o cracking the clear text of the password
first).  So mksmbpasswd.sh just creates lines for each user
in /etc/passwd and assigns then a locked password and disables
the account.





cheers, jerry
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