Re: [Samba] smbpasswd
If I have correctly understood what you want to do, the simple answer is: you can't. The passwords stored in shadow file and in smbpasswd, though they may be the same (in clear text), are encrypted with two different one way hash functions. In order to put in smbpasswd the same user passwords than in shadow, you need to compute the hash string from the passwords in clear text. The only reasonable way to achieve this is to implement some solution that keeps unix passwords and samba passwords synchronized (such as what can be done in smb.conf with unix password sync and passwd program but there are many other solutions) and to ask users to change their passwords once, so that shadow and smbpasswd hash strings are computed from the same password. Le mer 29/12/2004 à 13:26, Rodrigo Noroaldo de Castro Fernandes a écrit : --ms080602000709060800080902 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear all, How can I convert the Linux users password (/etc/shadow) to Samba users password (.../private/smbpasswd)? Best Brazilian regards -- Olivier Navas Groupement Informatique et Télécommunications SDIS 33 - Humor in the Court: Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? A: Yes, I have been since early childhood. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Replacement of a windows 2000 PDC with active directory by samba/LDAP
Hi I'm currently working on a project aiming at replacing all windows servers (about 20) in my company by linux servers. Some of these windows servers are windows 2000 domain controlers (one PDC and few BDCs) with active directory. We have about 900 client windows 2000 workstations and about 2/3 of them are domain members. Our goal is to replace the windows servers that are domain controlers by samba servers, and of course, to avoid as much as possible a migration of the windows workstations because that would be a very long and human resource intensive task. Reading the samba documentation, I understand that samba 3 can act roughly like a windows NT 4 PDC, but not like an active directory server. My first conclusion is that our windows domain will probably have to downgrade to a NT 4 like domain, but I don't really know what impact this will have on windows 2000 workstations. So these are my questions: - Will we be able to achieve the replacement of the windows 2000 PDC et BDCs without any action on windows workstations ? Or should we prepare for bad days of workstations migration ? - Does anybody have a similar experience ? Thanks for your help. -- Olivier Navas Groupement Informatique et Télécommunications SDIS 33 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
