"Ilia E. Chipitsine" wrote:>
> Dear Sirs,
>
> is there any program like 'crack-5' in order to break smbpasswd ?
>
> what is stronger:
>
> 1) MD5 passwords ? (I'm using FreeBSD)
Probably
> 2) DES passwords ?
weak, but if salted its not cleartext equiv
> 3) Kerberos 5 ?
Depends on enc types used, cleartext equiv
> 4) smbpasswd ?
Very weak, cleartext equiv.
The LM hash in smbpasswd is very weak, and I'm told it can be
'broken'
in rather short order.
But none of the above is relevent unless the passwords are not in the
dictionary!
Andrew Bartlett
--
Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net
http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net