I am looking to install Samba on a HP-UX B.10.20 system where all the passwords are stored in /tcb/files/auth/*/*. I am looking into how I am supposed to generated the Samba password file so I can use encrypted Samba passwords, but I've run into a problem. It appears that HP has decided that trusted systems should be allowed to have passwords longer than 8 characters, so if you have a password longer than 8 characters, the standard 13 character "hash" becomes about 24 characters. Apparently it just slaps on another crypt() for the second chunk of password without a salt. How am I supposed to get Samba to be able to deal with this and how am I supposed to get Samba to use these passwords? There is no Samba tool for generating a smbpasswd file from these files, though I did make one. I got stuck when I ran into this strange >8 character password behavior. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Sean M. Kelly Asst. Unix Systems and Network Admin. Creighton University Computer Center