[Samba] is it possible to cut and paste linux shadow file passwd hashes to smbpasswd file?

[John H Terpstra]

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 23:26, davidmarcus wrote:
> is it possible to cut and paste linux shadow file passwd hashes to
> smbpasswd file?

Yes, it is possible, but it will do no good! UNIX/Linux password hashes as 
encoded differently than Windows passwords.

- John T.
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