[Samba] password and case sensitivity
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Wed Oct 2 04:42:00 GMT 2002
Joseph Kezar wrote:
>
> We are using samba as our fileserver. And we have a Windows 2000 PDC in
> place here as well. The PDC is our password server.
>
> we have these directives:
> password server = ip_address_of_win_PDC
> encrypt passwords = yes
>
> And when we use pam_smb to authenticate it is not case sensitive. if I
> have a password of dOpTog6, doptog6 is just fine. How can I make samba
> more strict. I tried password level = 24. and that didnt seem to do
> anything.
pam_smb uses lanman passwords, which are not case sensitive. Install
winbind and use pam_winbind instead.
Andrew Bartlett
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