On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 14:52 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 13 January 2007 12:27, Craig White wrote: > >On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 06:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings; > >> > >> I'm trying to setup a samba share on my lappy, and have run into a > >> large problem, large because my root password is 19 chars long. > >> > >> An attempt to bring up the share gets this error printed on the cli: > >> > >> password too long > >> > >> As I can't seem to grep for it, in what file can the allowable > >> samba|cifs password length be set? > > > >---- > >samba conforms to windows standards for obvious reasons - there is no > >place where this can be changed without re-compiling samba. root > >password like all other samba passwords is set with smbpasswd command > >and has nothing to do with Linux/UNIX passwords. > > > >Not that this admonition is going to do much good but root is generally > >not a samba user but is typically mapped if needed in smbusers > > > >Craig > > It does exist in that file & I don't recall ever editing it. ---- If you are speaking of password entries in /etc/samba/smbpasswd, those are the already hashed password using standard Windows NT hash algorithm. If you want to set a password for say, user gene... smbpasswd gene (it prompts you to enter a password) this is then 'hashed' and written to /etc/samba/smbpasswd Craig
