[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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