making smbpasswd from /etc/passwd

[Gerald Carter]

rparker at VPR.net wrote:
> 
> Thanks! A VERY useful distinction indeed - this is extremely
> helpful to know. So 'EnablePlainTextPassword' could more
> 'properly' be called:
> 
> 'EnableDowngradeToPlainTextPasswordIfNeeded'  ;)
> 
>     ...does not disable the use of the challenge/response authentication
>     used by encryption enabled servers. :-)  It's a common
>     misunderstanding.
>     [snip]
>     All MS clients support the challenge response authentication.
>     :-)  Another common misconception.

I'm going to make sure this is a distinction that is 
well documented is the next go round of revision for the 
samba documentation (hopefully for 2.2.0)




Cheers, jerry
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