samba - Oct 2017 - syncpassword and (strange) base64...

On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:19:39 +0100
Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > Seems a bit strange to me...
> 
> Seems a bug to me, so i've fired up:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13114
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
I normally only use 'samba-tool user setpassword --random-password'
when I create a user that will never log in and then use kerberos with
a program e.g. squid. I usually also set the password to never expire.

So, the question has to be, just what do you need to sync the passwords
to ?

Rowland

Mandi! Rowland Penny via samba
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> I normally only use 'samba-tool user setpassword --random-password'
> when I create a user that will never log in and then use kerberos with
> a program e.g. squid. I usually also set the password to never expire.
Silimar user case. I need to create accounts by scripts, where
passwords are set by other means (eg, another scripts).
Practically, i'm ''syncing'' my old NT domains with my new
AD one.

> So, the question has to be, just what do you need to sync the passwords
> to ?
Really i don't need that. But 'samba-tool user setpassword
--random-password'
passwords get processed by 'syncpasswords', as
''normal'' ones.

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On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 19:05 +0100, Marco Gaiarin via samba wrote:
> 
> > So, the question has to be, just what do you need to sync the
passwords
> > to ?
> 
> Really i don't need that. But 'samba-tool user setpassword
--random-password'
> passwords get processed by 'syncpasswords', as
''normal'' ones.
Either way, if we can't handle long passwords we need to fix that. 

Andrew Bartlett

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