Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:47:17 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Forrest" <praxis@techpraxis.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Samba encrypted passwords and question to Ted Mittelstaedt... Message-ID: <000301c0b354$563df660$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <B6DFBA59.2AF2%praxis@techpraxis.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Forrest >>> >> >Thank you Ted, everything is working beautifully with Samba now. I found >that I had to run smbpasswd once for each user, after I had run the script >referenced above. > Yes, that's correct, all the script does is populate the smbpasswd password file from the system password with the usernames, it can't insert the crypted password becuase there's no way to go backwards from the UNIX crypted passwords. You probably want to rename 'passwd' to 'passwd.old' and make a softlink from 'smbpasswd' to 'passwd' so that you don't forget in the future. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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