Bug#155401: ITP: mkntpwd -- tool to create LM and NT MD4 password hashes

[Roland Bauerschmidt <rb@debian.org>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> If Samba has LDAP support compiled in and turned on (as must be the case
> to use Samba with LDAP!), then the 'smbpasswd' utility can be used to
> manage passwords in the LDAP directory, without the need for other
> utilities.  Depending on your needs, the 'pdbedit' import util and
> the 'pam_smbpass' pam module may also serve.

Yes, I'm aware of that. Nonetheless, it can still be useful to be able
to create those hashes manually, i.e. in a Web-based LDAP administration
tool.

While we are at it, I have some off-topic question: Does pam_smbpass add
the ntPassword and lmPassword attributes if they don't exist? Or does
this only work if nullok is specified? Or not at all?

> Well, some of these dependencies are central to authentication support in
> Win2k; but others, such as libcupsys2 and libacl1, I'm looking forward to
> stripping out of the packages that don't need them.  This would include
> libsmbclient.

I don't have a problem with libsmbclient linking to a bunch of stuff. I
was just considering to include the little relevent parts of Samba (like
the current mkntpwd is doing) rather than linking to libsmbclient and
thus depending on all that stuff.

Thanks for your help, anyways, Roland

-- 
Roland Bauerschmidt