2.0.6 Problem

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at ns.aus.com
Mon Apr 29 19:01:36 GMT 2002


On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> 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.

Arrrg. That should have read ... Samba 2.0.3 on VMS ... 

> 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
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

-- 
Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org, 
sharpe at ethereal.com





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