Smbpasswd and Mixed-case passwords

[McEldowney, Michael]

Not entirely wrong...

NT and 2K are particular about case, but win9x isn't.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pascal Deliot [mailto:pdeliot at ocare.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 5:19 AM
To: samba at us5.samba.org
Subject: Re: Smbpasswd and Mixed-case passwords


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
 >>
 >>