[Samba] Hashes in smbpasswd

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Aug 23 21:49:36 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 00:12, William Jojo wrote:
> AIX 5.2
> Samba 3.0.6
> 
> 
> the smbpasswd file is showing only the nt (second) hash after a machine
> join. the lm hash (first) is all X's.
> 
> is this expected?
> 
> I also noticed in LDAP that this was the case on password changes for
> users.
> 
> has the LM hash been dropped?

Yes.  For machines, it doesn't get set for a number of reasons, and for
machines, it is also never read.  As we moved to allow the same for
users (where they have 'long' passwords, > 14 chars), I cleaned up the
machine password change code at the same time.

Andrew Bartlett

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