[Samba] Re: Yet Another LDAP Question

[Mac]

>
>It relates to my last question: is there any way to for unix->NT
>password conversion ? 
>
>I need to create ntAccounts from my shadow passwords (crypt-ed) in the
>Ldap server. It seems there's no supported way but two problems emerge
>in here:
>
>1) you have to ask lots of people to type their passwords again
>2) you have no control maintain same password policy
>


Have a look at 'update encrypted' option 

http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#UPDATEENCRYPTED


so long as your users are connecting to an existing samba server using
plain-text passwords, then you can turn this option on and capture their
passwords into a local SMB-style password file.




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