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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2002-10-01 17:16:07 +0000
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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man-spec
-.\" from a DocBook document. docbook2man-spec can be found at:
-.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/hacks/docbook2X/>
+.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man
+.\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at:
+.\" <http://shell.ipoline.com/~elmert/comp/docbook2X/>
.\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches,
.\" etc. to Steve Cheng <steve@ggi-project.org>.
-.TH "SMBPASSWD" "5" "28 January 2002" "" ""
+.TH "SMBPASSWD" "5" "01 October 2002" "" ""
.SH NAME
smbpasswd \- The Samba encrypted password file
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ smbpasswd \- The Samba encrypted password file
\fIsmbpasswd\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
-This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
+This tool is part of the Samba suite.
.PP
smbpasswd is the Samba encrypted password file. It contains
the username, Unix user id and the SMB hashed passwords of the
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ this smbpasswd file entry as being valid for a user.
.TP
\fBLanman Password Hash\fR
This is the LANMAN hash of the user's password,
-encoded as 32 hex digits. The LANMAN hash is created by DES
+encoded as 32 hex digits. The LANMAN hash is created by DES
encrypting a well known string with the user's password as the
DES key. This is the same password used by Windows 95/98 machines.
Note that this password hash is regarded as weak as it is
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ other access.
.TP
\fBNT Password Hash\fR
This is the Windows NT hash of the user's
-password, encoded as 32 hex digits. The Windows NT hash is
+password, encoded as 32 hex digits. The Windows NT hash is
created by taking the user's password as represented in
16-bit, little-endian UNICODE and then applying the MD4
(internet rfc1321) hashing algorithm to it.
@@ -108,12 +108,12 @@ in the smbpasswd file.
\fBN\fR - This means the
account has no password (the passwords in the fields LANMAN
Password Hash and NT Password Hash are ignored). Note that this
-will only allow users to log on with no password if the \fI null passwords\fR parameter is set in the \fIsmb.conf(5)
-\fRconfig file.
+will only allow users to log on with no password if the \fI null passwords\fR parameter is set in the \fIsmb.conf(5)
+\fR config file.
.TP 0.2i
\(bu
\fBD\fR - This means the account
-is disabled and no SMB/CIFS logins will be allowed for
+is disabled and no SMB/CIFS logins will be allowed for
this user.
.TP 0.2i
\(bu
@@ -122,10 +122,9 @@ is a "Workstation Trust" account. This kind of account is used
in the Samba PDC code stream to allow Windows NT Workstations
and Servers to join a Domain hosted by a Samba PDC.
.RE
-.PP
+
Other flags may be added as the code is extended in future.
The rest of this field space is filled in with spaces.
-.PP
.TP
\fBLast Change Time\fR
This field consists of the time the account was
@@ -134,15 +133,14 @@ last modified. It consists of the characters 'LCT-' (standing for
in seconds since the epoch (1970) that the last change was made.
.PP
All other colon separated fields are ignored at this time.
-.PP
.SH "VERSION"
.PP
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
the Samba suite.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
-\fBsmbpasswd(8)\fR,
-samba(7), and
+\fBsmbpasswd(8)\fR
+samba(7) and
the Internet RFC1321 for details on the MD4 algorithm.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
@@ -155,5 +153,5 @@ The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/ <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
-release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
+release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter