you can try crack the password of all the users in an NT box so you dont
need to force them to change their password.

c",)


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From: "Bopolissimus Platypus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] migration from ms exchange to sendmail/postfix


> On Saturday 04 October 2003 13:50, Bopolissimus Platypus wrote:
> > how about passwords?  are they exported in standard MD5
> > that can somehow be manhandled into linux md5 password
> > format?
>
> oops, excuse me, i don't actually misunderstand MD5, i just
> miswrote :).  my real question was:
>
> how about passwords.  can they somehow be manhandled into
> the linux md5 password format (e.g., can we get them in plaintext
> in NT so we can hash them ourselves), or into some other format
> that can be used for authentication on linux? (e.g., LDAP? i don't
> know how LDAP stores passwords, is there a standard LDAP hash
> that works the same in Win* and Linux?  or are the hashes not
> compatible so that we'll still have to go with sniffing or forcing them
> to change their passwords or something else like that authentication
> proxy i was fantasizing about previously? :).
>
> tiger
>
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