[Samba] is the domain admin password stored on the local machine?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Sat Jun 11 21:25:56 GMT 2005


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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
| Gerald (Jerry) Carter schrieb:
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|> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
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|> | I just wanted to know if the domain admin password is
|> | stored on the local machine, when that machine joins
|> | the domain?   Or is it just used to authenticate, and it is
|> | not stored anywhere on the  workstation?
|>
|> only the machine trust account password is stored on the local
|> machine.  The admin password is justed used in the initial
|> connection when joining the domain.
|
| But waht happens when a domain user logs into a Windows machine (or a
| domain admin, which is also a user)?
|
|  From this time on, the password is "cached" somewhere on the
| workstation, right?

Samba does not cache passwords.  A windows workstation will
cache passwords, but smbd does not.





cheers, jerry
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