Hello,

I don't know about you, but it get me a bit nervous to know that
passwords are available in clear text in /etc/amandapass (I mean
password for Samba). While it means little for Win9x, I have a couple
of NT servers and I don't fancy having those allmighty passwords so
readable.

I did a short path to Amanda so that the /etc/amandapass looks like

//machine/share 56ed6f6a5eb8c9c08...(it goes on for 260 hexa characters) domain

where Amanda has an hard coded password to decrypt that, and I have a
short shell command to encrypt it.

More info on http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/laboratory/reports/hidding_password.shtml

Bestregards,

Olivier

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