migrating to encrypted passwords

Sentient Organism d at mongueurs.net
Tue Dec 11 02:23:05 GMT 2001


I have an old Samba network that uses unencrypted passwords. At the time,
the posts were running win95. These days they are running win98 for the
most part, but introducing new machines onto the network means fiddling
with the EnablePlainTextPassword registry key.

So currently, all the machines use plain-text passwords. I want to modify
them all to use encrypted passwords. Naturally, I want to do this as
easily (i.e., over a period of time) as possible.

I thought the [update encrypted] setting would help me, but obviously I
have misunderstood its purpose. I have it set to 'yes', and [encrypt
passwords] is set to 'no'.

So I thought that once this was done, I would be able to edit my registry
key and set my PC to send an encrypted password. However, when I did
this, Samba refused to authenticate me, until I re-edited the registry
key to send plain-text.

Can someone kindly clue me in as to how this is supposed to work?

thanks,
D.




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