Passwords for new machine accounts

Roland Gruber gruberr at in.tum.de
Thu Mar 11 00:31:20 GMT 2004


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Hi Andrew,

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
|>I can remember a complicated password with several special characters. I
|>think it was retrieved from some Windows dll-file and used at least by
|>Samba 2.x.
|
| Nope.
|
|>Are you sure that Windows NT4 already used the machine name as password?
|
| Yep.  Lowercase machine name in unicode.  (no $ termination, limited to
| 14 unicode chars I think)

ok, then I will use the machine name as password.
Thanks for the information.


Greetings,
Roland
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