Is Your e3000 Environment Secure? - by Mark Bixby

Is Your e3000 Environment Secure? - HPWorld 2003 page 75August 14, 2003
Samba – encrypted passwords
§Samba/iX 2.0.7 and earlier only supported plaintext
passwords
§Samba/iX 2.2.8a adds support for encrypted passwords
(via patch SMBMXG3 for 6.5, 7.0, and 7.5)
§Samba encrypted passwords are independent of MPE
user & account passwords
– stored in /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
– maintained with /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd utility
§For more information:
http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/ENCRYPTION.html