Smbpasswd and Mixed-case passwords
Tim Potter
tpot at linuxcare.com.au
Thu Feb 1 17:30:13 GMT 2001
Gerald Carter writes:
> > 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).
>
> This is true for generating LanMan hashes, but not
> the NT hash (MD4 hash of the UNICODE password).
> I need to look as I thought smbclient was using
> the NT hash.
So does this imply that smbclient can use i18n passwords? I had
a brief go at it the other day but couldn't get it to work.
Tim.
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