samba - May 2007 - whats the diffrence between sambaNTPassword and userPassword

Hello List,

whats the diffrence of sambaNTPassword and userPassword?
I guess they have a diffrent hash, but why?
And do they both get updated if the user changes his password?

Thanks, Mario

> whats the diffrence of sambaNTPassword and userPassword?
One is the CIFS NT hash the other is the traditional UNIX hash.
> I guess they have a diffrent hash, but why?
History
> And do they both get updated if the user changes his password?
Depends on how you configure the server.

This issue is extremely well documented.

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Am Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2007 08:25 schrieb ml@bortal.de:
> Hello List,
>
> whats the diffrence of sambaNTPassword and userPassword?
I assume you are using LDAP as backend?

sambaLMPassword and sambaNTPassword are the Hashes samba uses (for its LM and 
NT Hash), userPassword is used for ldapbind or nss_ldap and can contain for 
example SHA, MD5 or CRYPT hashes.
> I guess they have a diffrent hash, but why?
Samba needs NT/LM hashes for communication with windows while not every POSIX 
client may use them as userpassword.

Same is true for values like password or account expirience dates.
> And do they both get updated if the user changes his password?
Depends on your setup, you may use PAM and samba scripts as described in 
common Samba/LDAP-Howtos. There are example-Scripts in the samba-distribution 
which may help, too.
> Thanks, Mario
Regards
Ingo Steuwer

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