Topic: Samba encrypted passwords, NT passwd-change dialog

[Patrick Kessen]

Hi all,

thanks for answering my questions (Joseph) and now I some another questions;)
Does e-smith support encrypted passwords for the Samba component?
Is it possible for clients (Windows NT) to change their Samba/E-smith password using the
NT-passwordchange dialog?

Patrick

[Kim Morrison]

PASSWORDS: Hi Patrick!  On the encrypted password front, there is good news and bad news. On our system, Samba is configured to use encrypted passwords. However, to keep the Samba and Unix passwords in sync, users must use a special "personal password changing" part of the web based manager rather than the NT password change dialog.  This means that when your user changes his/her password using the web based manager, the password is sent from the user's desktop to the e-smith server over the local network unencrypted. To access the personal password section of our web based manager, your users would visit the URL: www.domainname.xxx/e-smith-password.   Regards!  Kim