More information for password level (BUG#227)

John H Terpstra samba-bugs at samba.anu.edu.au
Thu Oct 9 12:30:32 GMT 1997


Hi,

Thanks for your info. I am passing it on to the official mailing list:
samba at samba.anu.edu.au for information and also putting it aside for inclusion
in the FAQ.

> Hi Samba Team.  Great job.
>This is not a bug, but didn't find any other address to reach you.
>Sorry if I am bothering you.
>
>I just wanted to give you more information then is stated in the man
>pages of smb.conf for the "password level" where you give an example
>of the different combinations with "FRED".
>
>If you are interested here are the exact numbers of the password
>combinations for the different password level.  (I can send you my
>calculations if you want to).  Those numbers are calculated for a password
>length of 8 characters.  If the password is shorter it will have even less
>possible combinations.
>
>       ADDED          TOTAL
>LEVEL  COMBINATIONS   COMBINATIONS
>  0       2              2
>  1       8             10
>  2      28             38
>  3      56             94
>  4      70            164
>  5      56            220
>  6      28            248
>  7       8            256
>
>I am now using a password level of 7 to make sure that no password will be
>rejected.  I did not experience time out problems so far.  It is just 256
>combinations maximum but all the time it will be much less than that.
>
>I am using Samba 1.9.17 with Solaris 2.5.1 on a Sparc20 with 2 CPUs.
> 
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>Cheers,
John H Terpstra - Samba-Team
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