[Samba] Changing 644 back to 600 on smbpasswd automatically?

[TeeCee]

Hi Jeremy and thanks for the fast answer! :o)

> Samba smbd does that. This file should not be 644, as it contains
> the users hashed passwords (ie. you're giving full access to all
> users passwords to anyone on the system). Samba is trying to
> protect you from yourself here....
I may have known the security reasons, but the password is not in plain text, 
and the samba is only reachable from the intranet, where we have only a few 
PCs...

Any other help to list all the users that are on samba with account flags and 
LCT?

Awaiting You answers:
  TeeCee :o)


> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:28:27AM +0100, TeeCee wrote:
> >   I want to list users from smbpasswd (stored in /etc/samba). I chmoded > 
> file from 600 to 644, to ba able to read it with PHP. After a while somehow 
> > it changed back to 600, so it was fully unreadable again :(
> 
> Samba smbd does that. This file should not be 644, as it contains
> the users hashed passwords (ie. you're giving full access to all
> users passwords to anyone on the system). Samba is trying to
> protect you from yourself here....
> 
> Jeremy.