2.0.6 Problem
Richard Sharpe
rsharpe at ns.aus.com
Mon Apr 29 18:54:17 GMT 2002
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Robert F. Thomas wrote:
> That is exciting news, since it is totally undocumented that SAMBA 2.0.3 on
> OpenVMS supports encrypted passwords.
Oops. I may have miss-spoke with respect to Samba on 2.0.3. I don't use
it. In which case, I apologise. The statement is true in general of Samba.
In any event, the error that is being returned clearly indicates that the
user has managed to authenticate. You get a different error if they did
not authenticate.
> Could you please explain how we can utilize this capability in v2.0.3?
>
> Sincerely,
> Robert F. Thomas
> A. S. Thomas, Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:rsharpe at ns.aus.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:40 PM
> To: Robert F. Thomas
> Cc: Naveed Ahmed; samba-vms at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: 2.0.6 Problem
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Robert F. Thomas wrote:
>
> > Has the user been entered into the SAMBA password list? In V2.0.3 all
> > passwords are unencrypted. In V2.0.6 passwords can be encrypted and if
> this
> > feature is being used (turned on by default), each user/machine accessing
> > the share must have an entry in the SAMBA password file. This file is
> > maintained by SMBPASSWD.
>
> Sorry, this is incorrect.
>
> 1. 2.0.3 allowed encrypted passwds, and you have to do things explicitely
> to allow them in 2.0.3, 2.0.6, or indeed, any version of Samba.
>
> 2. You only get that message if the user has authenticated and tries to do
> a TCON or a TCONX. Thus, they have clearly authenticated.
>
> Use the source, Luke :-)
>
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org,
> sharpe at ethereal.com
>
>
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Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org,
sharpe at ethereal.com
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