[Samba] password and case sensitivity

[Andrew Bartlett]

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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