[Samba] NT Hash algorithm

[Gerald Carter]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Paul Reilly wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to maintain a smbpasswd file by hand. This means being able to
> encode a plain text password in to the NT Hash, and inserting this in to
> the required field in smbpasswd. I was looking at the code in smbpasswd
> with the idea of splitting out the code to do this. Has anyone already
> done this?  Basically I want a program I can give a plain text password to
> and get back the NT hash encrypted verion of what the password
> was.

Look for smbencrypt on ftp.samba.org:/pub/samba/contrib
or something to that affect.






cheers, jerry
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