On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:06, Christoph Scheeder wrote: > Ian Moore schrieb: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for some help to migrate from plain text to encrypted > > passwords. I'm using smbpasswd for authentication on a FreeBSD 4.9 server > > with samba 2.2.8. > > When we set up our server, we had Win95 clients with plain text > > passwords. As we introduced Win98 clients, we just kept with the plain > > text passwords. Now we are looking at XP clients and enctrypted > > passwords. > > My understanding from everything I've found on this subject is that by > > setting update encrypted = Yes and encrypt password = no, I sould be able > > to migrate from unencrypted to encrypted passwords. > > I've made those settings in swat, logged in on a plain password client & > > then set the client to use encrypted passwords and tried to log in again, > > but the password is refused. > > Hi, > this is exactly the expected behavior. > As long as the line > > encrypt password=no > > is in your smb.conf you can't login using encrypted passwords. > The two lines you mention are ment to be there for a period of a few > weeks, untill all your users have logged in at least one time. > Then you have to remove both lines and after that point no > cleartext-passwords will be allowed anymore. > You can't have it both at the same time in your network. > Christoph
Thanks Christoph, I was wondering how samba would figure out wether you were sending an encrypted password or not :-) I'll give that a try. Cheers, -- Ian Moore GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc
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