Samba group members,
Is the password that I specify when logging into SWAT handled securely?
I'd like to use the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) to create and administer Samba "shares" that will be used by our users of ClearCase on Windows. That requires that I log in to the Samba host as "root". I access SWAT via Internet Explorer (from any machine) buy specifying the URL "http://machine:901";,
For my ClearCase-related Samba Administration, our UNIX Sys Administrator is OK with giving me the password for user "root" on that machine, but he fears that the password entered in that login window will be transferred over the network as "cleartext". That is, he fears that the password might be too easily observed by prying eyes.
QUESTIONS: 1) Is the password handled securely during my SWAT login?
Without knowing anything at all about SWAT specifically, I can tell you that your administrator is exactly right to be worried, because you are almost without doubt using clear HTTP; the 'http:', rather than 'https:' tells me this.
You might want to look into running SWAT with secure-HTTP. It might be as easy as changing a couple of configuration parameters.
Or, login in with SSH using Putty or TeraTerm, port-forwarding 901, then run your browser against http://localhost:901. :-)
Yeah, pretty much, if there's nobody on that machine getting into your socket communication. :-)
2) If the answer to Q1 is "No", then might it be "Yes" if I used a browser (Netscape) that is running on the same machine that I'm loggng in to?
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