[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:31:00AM -0700, Herb Lewis wrote: > > > > According to the man page you use smbpasswd -n <username> to set the > > NO PASSWORDXXXXX password. Empty passwords give a different password. > > It looks like this was intentional but I'm not sure why. > > No password is different from the password "" (an empty password). > "" is actually hashed as an empty string and is a valid password, > NO PASSWORD is treated differently. > > Jeremy.
I am assuming the NO PASSWORD will not allow a login. The null password login should be controlled by the smb.conf parameter "null passwords". -- ====================================================================== Herb Lewis Silicon Graphics Networking Engineer 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy MS-510 Strategic Software Organization Mountain View, CA 94043-1351 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 650-933-2177 http://www.sgi.com Fax: 650-932-2177 ====================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
