Users able to connect without password?! (2.0.7)

[David Lane]

Sorry to respond to this myself, but I've found my problem with users able to 
login without (or with incorrect) passwords...

When I use Webmin's (version 0.80 w/ Linux-Mandrake) Samba module to "Convert 
Users" from being listed only in the /etc/passwd file to being listed also in 
the /etc/smbpasswd file, there is an option "For newly created users, set 
password to:
X - no password
o - account locked
o - use this password _______________

And, by default, it would seem, "no password" is selected.  This means that 
any new user added to smbpasswd from /etc/passwd automatically gets the "no 
password" option, leading to the problem I encountered.  This may be changed 
in more recent versions of Webmin (www.webmin.com).  

By simply re-entering the user passwords (either through smbpasswd on the 
command line or through the Samba Users screen in Webmin), I was able to set 
the proper passwords, which forces users to enter them properly.  Sorry for 
the trouble - hope this helps someone else!  Thanks for a great application 
that has been very important to my business.  I'm looking forward to 
implementing my first Samba 2.2.x installation in the next week or so.  
Regards,

Dave


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