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Title: Samba encrypted passwords, NT passwd-change dialog
Post by: Patrick Kessen on September 03, 1999, 12:49:36 PM

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

Title: Re: Samba encrypted passwords, NT passwd-change di
Post by: Kim Morrison on September 03, 1999, 05:56:46 PM

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