S4 - Last password change

Brian C. Huffman bhuffman at etinternational.com
Thu Jun 2 08:31:10 MDT 2011


On 06/02/2011 10:28 AM, Michael Wood wrote:
> On 2 June 2011 14:06, Brian C. Huffman<bhuffman at etinternational.com>  wrote:
>> On 06/02/2011 08:02 AM, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> [...]
>>> Yeah kindof, and why not import your current password database in Samba4 ?
>>>
>> I'm coming from all unix-based passwords.  My understanding is that without
>> knowing the passwords, I can not import the md5 hash-based passwords into
>> S4.
> Try running Crack or John the Ripper or something against them and you
> might find you can cut down on the number of people you need to chase
> to change their passwords ;)
>
> On the other hand, you might want to get them to change their
> passwords to something less crackable.
>
Yes - someone else mentioned that idea.

But you're right - I want to use S4 to start enforcing password 
complexity and aging, so I will want everyone to pick new passwords.

Thanks,
Brian


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