samba - Apr 1998 - printing from Unix to SMB printer

Hi,

When defining a queue for lpd using a SMB (Win95) printer, it uses a
".config" file that store a username and password for printing on the
SMB
server. 
Is there a way (as anybody tried and how to) to configure the lpd so the
username and password used to print on the SMB server are the unix login
and password of the user printing (password databases are synchronized),
so the job on the SMB server is really owned by the user who is printing.

ThanXXX  

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Michel Applaincourt schrieb:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When defining a queue for lpd using a SMB (Win95) printer, it uses a
> ".config" file that store a username and password for printing on
the SMB
> server.
> Is there a way (as anybody tried and how to) to configure the lpd so the
> username and password used to print on the SMB server are the unix login
> and password of the user printing (password databases are synchronized),
> so the job on the SMB server is really owned by the user who is printing.
No. There is no way to get the cleartext password either from the
unix or the Samba password database.

Hmm, it might be possible to write a smbclient that is able to
use the encrypted passwords in Samba's password file for login
on a SMB server. Nobody has done this yet, however.

Bye,
  N. Pueschel

Hi

This would not work, because the unix-password are encrypted by an
one-way-hash funktion. With today's computers it's NOT possible to get
the
clear-text password from the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow file, no is it
possible to convert the password to the encryption used by WIndows. 
However, you could patch the passwd programm, so that it saves the
clear-text or windows-encrypted password somewhere. This could than be
used for printing. If you are really concerned about security, you should
not do this, because the encryption used by windows is known to be weak.

								mfg, fgp

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Dan,

On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:28:20 +1000, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>How many times must I say this?
Not once.
>To a student of computability, one-way-hashes are decryptable, it's just
that
>this decryption is not a "tractable problem".  A decryption
function clearly
>exists, it is just not one that can be evaluated in polynomial time.
In the context of this list this seems to be completely irrelevant.

Regards,
        Robert


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Robert Dahlem wrote:
> In the context of this list this seems to be completely irrelevant.
Well, I guess this list does not really need protection from people who think
that it is up to them to decide what is relevant and what is not.

This has to do with tolerance.

Detlef