unix -> windows password conversion?

The Archimage archimage at linux-magic.com
Wed Mar 7 05:18:32 GMT 2001


DOH!  My bad - last time I used it was on an old Slackware box, which
didn't use shadowed passwords.  Sorry.

Thomas


Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> The Archimage writes:
> 
> > > I have this memory of a script that converted unix passwd hashes to
> > > windows password hashes that could be used with samba.  But I've
> > > searched for quite a while through the documentation, mailing lists, on
> > > the web, etc., and haven't found it.  Was I dreaming?
> >
> > mksmbpasswd.sh
> 
> Er, this script only creates a blank smbpasswd entry.  To convert
> a unix passwd hash to a windows password hash you need to run
> something like crack over your password file.
> 
> Tim.
> 
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