From 04cfbc7854bb793481e9050264a1f0cac1c6198a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Terpstra
WARNING !!. Note that, due to + not "salted" as the UNIX password is).
WARNING !!. 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 @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ 13 characters in length (including the '[' and ']' characters). The contents of this field may be any of the following characters:
U - This means - this is a "User" account, i.e. an ordinary user. Only User + this is a "User" account, i.e. an ordinary user. Only User and Workstation Trust accounts are currently supported in the smbpasswd file.
N - This means the account has no password (the passwords in the fields LANMAN @@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ null passwords parameter is set in the smb.conf(5) config file.
D - This means the account is disabled and no SMB/CIFS logins will be allowed for this user.
W - This means this account - is a "Workstation Trust" account. This kind of account is used + 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.
Other flags may be added as the code is extended in future. The rest of this field space is filled in with spaces.
This field consists of the time the account was last modified. It consists of the characters 'LCT-' (standing for - "Last Change Time") followed by a numeric encoding of the UNIX time + "Last Change Time") followed by a numeric encoding of the UNIX time in seconds since the epoch (1970) that the last change was made.
All other colon separated fields are ignored at this time.
This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
smbpasswd(8), Samba(7), and -- cgit