[Samba] cracking smbpasswd

[Julian Pilfold-Bagwell]

Hi all,


I'm currently migrating from tdbsam to LDAP and want to restructure my setup 
at the same time. I can get the SIDs for the user and machine accounts using 
pdbedit -Lv | grep SID but I have 800 users so I don't want to reset their 
passwords. 

So far, I've dumped the contents of the tdbsam database into an smbpasswd 
backup file and am running john-the-ripper across it. It's succeeding in 
cracking the passwords but they only come out at max 8 characters and in 
capitals. Has anyone got any experience with JTR and smbpasswd? 

All advice gratefully received,

Jools