samba - Mar 2005 - is it possible to cut and paste linux shadow file passwd hashes to smbpasswd file?

is it possible to cut and paste linux shadow file passwd hashes to 
smbpasswd file?

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 23:26, davidmarcus wrote:
> is it possible to cut and paste linux shadow file passwd hashes to
> smbpasswd file?
Yes, it is possible, but it will do no good! UNIX/Linux password hashes as 
encoded differently than Windows passwords.

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| is it possible to cut and paste linux shadow file passwd hashes to
| smbpasswd file?

...and have it work? I'm afraid not. What you need is:

passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd '%u'
unix password sync = Yes

This way, when a user changes their password, both sets will be changed.
Then what you can do have the system prompt users you already have to
change them.


Jim C.
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