Smbpasswd and Mixed-case passwords

Pascal Deliot pdeliot at ocare.com
Thu Feb 1 11:18:30 GMT 2001


Wrong...

Windows doesn't make the difference for username, but it does for password.

Peter Michael Düppenbecker wrote:

 > Hi Werner,
 >
 >     this behaviour is normal because the smbpasswd file contains 
passwords
 > that are encrypted in the Windows style. And Windows doesn't differ 
between
 > upper and lower case (passwords and usernames).
 >
 > MfG PMD
 >
 >
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "werner maes" <werner.maes at cc.kuleuven.ac.be>
 > Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,linux.samba
 > To: <samba at samba.org>
 > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:59 PM
 > Subject: Smbpasswd and Mixed-case passwords
 >
 >
 >
 >> Hello,
 >>
 >> Apparently the smbpasswd file doesn't care about mixed-case passwords.
 >> I've entered smbpasswd and changed my password to: MaEs.
 >> Then I did: smbclient //server/share -U werner and provided the wright
 >> password: MaEs. I managed to get access.
 >> BUT when I entered "maes" as password, it also worked. Same story with
 >> MAEs.
 >>
 >> Same story in Windows.
 >> Can anyone confirm this issue?
 >>
 >> Thanks alot,
 >>
 >> Werner Maes
 >> LUDIT-KULeuven
 >>
 >>






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