On Friday 26 January 2001 21:20, you wrote:
> I'm in the process of migrating all my NT servers to Linux Mandrake 7.2
>
> Currently, there's a PDC holding all the user's network folders and a
> couple of SDC's running a variety of services, including IMAP, SMTP, LDAP,
> web cache, printing, etc.
>
> All my users authenticate against the NT domain. So far I think i've got
> this covered. I already cracked all my users passwords (using l0phtcrack
> 2.52). Right now I'm in the process of writing a couple of migration
> scripts that will add the users, first to Linux and then to Samba 2.07,
> then move all the files from the NT file server to the Mandrake server and
> finally their mailboxes to a second Mandrake server. After taking the the
> NT PDC offline I'll reconfigure Samba to act as a PDC on the file server
> and as a SDC on the mail server.
>
> If all goes well, my users won't notice the change. Or at least that's my
> goal,a completely transparent migration experience (at least for them).
>
> My problem is that some of my users have very weak passwords and Mandrake
> won't allow them. I intend to address that issue sometime soon but I need
> to migrate them ASAP. So the question is: How do I instruct Mandrake to
> accept whaterver silly thing the users have chosen as their password.
>
> Can anyone help me please?
This _might_ work
Lower the security to 'Poor" and move to kernel 2.2.17-21mdk
Migrate the passwords
Raise the security to 'High' and switch to kernel-secure 2.2.18
This _will_ work
Alternatively, though it is a pain in the neck, use linuxconf on 6.1 which
will complain but accept the password anyway, then copy /etc/passwd over to
your system.
Civileme
