In article <[log in to unmask]>, Tom
Brandt <[log in to unmask]> writes:

>Subject:       Re: Samba 2.0.3 is officially being ported by CSY
>From:  Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
>Date:  Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:47:47 -0500
>
>At 02:37 PM 02/17/00 -0500, Chris Bartram wrote:
>>Will this [Samba 2.0.3 being ported to the 3K] support the NT encrypted
>>passwords (finally?)... The NT folks
>>laughed at me when I asked that they disable passwords (i.e. implement the
>>cleartext password hack) to allow us to use Samba and talk to production
>>(NT) servers...
>
>Yes, it will support encrypted passwords.
>

If I recall correctly the NT password string only allows 14 characters meaning
any account you want to secure and to be unaccessable from an NT-Samba style
domain just needs to have more than 14 characters including the . (dot) thus a
user/account combination like ABIGUSER.ABIGACCT can never be used via NT.

Does anyone know if this is likely to change???

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