Summary of "encrypted and cleartext password in the same time" issue.

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Mon Jan 14 07:06:18 GMT 2002


On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Becouse of this, Microsoft decided that it would mandate use of
> encrypted passwords.  This is done by simply disconnecting from any
> server that doesn't issue the required challange.
> 
> This causes the 'this account is not authorised to log in from this
> station' error.

And the way to get questions about it to disappear is to change the samba 
default to encrypted passwords (and fix the installation docs). But that 
was another thread ...

/Urban





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