SMB bulk add utility

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 20:21 -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>> Peter,
>>
>> The raw password is needed in order to generate the hashes used for Windows
>> authentication.  If kerberos is supported then there may be an option, but
>> for NTLM or NTLMv2 authentication you'll need the NTLM hash.  If that's not
>> already in eDirectory, then you'll need to generate it and it can only be
>> generated from the original password.
>>
>> That's the nature of security systems.  You shouldn't be able to get the raw
>> password out of the system.  It should only ever go in (and be destroyed
>> after it is used).
> 
> Happily (?) eDirectory stores a 'universal password' (being the
> plaintext), which Samba can obtain, if you have recent versions of both.

Ah.  Well... That's cool, I guess.

So what's the trick for doing the mass enable he originally asked about?

Chris -)-----

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