From 99bde6889d3d8b7a9e950c86c30e82662e1dacdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Carter Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 02:58:53 +0000 Subject: syncing files from 3.0 into HEAD again (This used to be commit bca0bba209255d0effbae6a3d3b6d298f0952c3a) --- docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.5.html | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.5.html') diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.5.html b/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.5.html index 556b637f4f..feb899f946 100644 --- a/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.5.html +++ b/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.5.html @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ Note that this password hash is regarded as weak as it is vulnerable to dictionary attacks and if two users choose the same password this entry will be identical (i.e. the password - is not "salted" as the UNIX password is). If the user has a - null password this field will contain the characters "NO PASSWORD" + is not "salted" as the UNIX password is). If the user has a + null password this field will contain the characters "NO PASSWORD" as the start of the hex string. If the hex string is equal to 32 'X' characters then the user's account is marked as disabled and the user will not be able to @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ password and uses a much higher quality hashing algorithm. However, it is still the case that if two users choose the same password this entry will be identical (i.e. the password is - not "salted" as the UNIX password is).

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 @@ -59,20 +59,21 @@ 13 characters in length (including the '[' and ']' characters). The contents of this field may be any of the following characters:

Other flags may be added as the code is extended in future. The rest of this field space is filled in with spaces.

Last Change Time

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.

VERSION

This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

smbpasswd(8), Samba(7), and -- cgit