[Samba] LDAP and Password Values
Adam Tauno Williams
awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed Aug 18 03:06:05 GMT 2004
> I remain unclear regarding Samba and LDAP.
> It appears that mkntpwd is required to generate a viable sambaNTPassword and
> sambaLMPassword attribute values.
No.
> But I believe I read that the current
> incarnation of smbpasswd can accomplish this.
Yes, this is all done via the PDB backend.
> Lastly, when utilzing
> phpLDAPadmin, do the NT and LM password fields contain the values generated
> by mkntpwd?
phpLDAPadmin might implement it's own mechanism. Generating an NT hash
is a documented thing.
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