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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2001-04-24 19:09:42 +0000
committerGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2001-04-24 19:09:42 +0000
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@@ -118,20 +118,17 @@ CLASS="CONSTANT"
> and the user will not be able to
log onto the Samba server. </P
><P
-><I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->WARNING !!</I
+><EM
+>WARNING !!</EM
> Note that, due to
the challenge-response nature of the SMB/CIFS authentication
protocol, anyone with a knowledge of this password hash will
be able to impersonate the user on the network. For this
- reason these hashes are known as <I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
+ reason these hashes are known as <EM
>plain text
- equivalents</I
-> and must <I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->NOT</I
+ equivalents</EM
+> and must <EM
+>NOT</EM
> be made
available to anyone but the root user. To protect these passwords
the smbpasswd file is placed in a directory with read and
@@ -156,20 +153,17 @@ CLASS="EMPHASIS"
password this entry will be identical (i.e. the password is
not "salted" as the UNIX password is). </P
><P
-><I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->WARNING !!</I
+><EM
+>WARNING !!</EM
>. Note that, due to
the challenge-response nature of the SMB/CIFS authentication
protocol, anyone with a knowledge of this password hash will
be able to impersonate the user on the network. For this
- reason these hashes are known as <I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
+ reason these hashes are known as <EM
>plain text
- equivalents</I
-> and must <I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->NOT</I
+ equivalents</EM
+> and must <EM
+>NOT</EM
> be made
available to anyone but the root user. To protect these passwords
the smbpasswd file is placed in a directory with read and
@@ -192,9 +186,8 @@ CLASS="EMPHASIS"
><UL
><LI
><P
-><I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->U</I
+><EM
+>U</EM
> - This means
this is a "User" account, i.e. an ordinary user. Only User
and Workstation Trust accounts are currently supported
@@ -202,9 +195,8 @@ CLASS="EMPHASIS"
></LI
><LI
><P
-><I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->N</I
+><EM
+>N</EM
> - This means the
account has no password (the passwords in the fields Lanman
Password Hash and NT Password Hash are ignored). Note that this
@@ -225,18 +217,16 @@ CLASS="FILENAME"
></LI
><LI
><P
-><I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->D</I
+><EM
+>D</EM
> - This means the account
is disabled and no SMB/CIFS logins will be allowed for
this user. </P
></LI
><LI
><P
-><I
-CLASS="EMPHASIS"
->W</I
+><EM
+>W</EM
> - This means this account
is a "Workstation Trust" account. This kind of account is used
in the Samba PDC code stream to allow Windows NT Workstations