Re: cifs password length?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 12:21 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote:
> Not an answer but - one time I tried mounting my home dir via
> netatalk, and (much to my surprise) the password entry box on the mac
> (OS7 - don't ask!) would only let me input 8 chars for the password!
> Not good, since my passwd is much longer - I had to change it
> temporarily.
----
agreed and this is a Macintosh issue since I have set up LDAP
authentication at various clients and have had to shorten passwords for
Macintosh users
----
> 
> I've never set up a samba share to be accessed by root before - always
> seemed like a Bad Idea.
----
Gene runs GUI as root so running samba as user root merely promulgates
that logic though the NT password hashes are somewhat less crack
resistant.

Craig

[Index of Archives]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [EPEL Announce]     [Fedora Magazine]     [Fedora News]     [Fedora Summer Coding]     [Fedora Laptop]     [Fedora Cloud]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Education]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Scitech]     [Fedora Robotics]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Infrastructure]     [Fedora Websites]     [Anaconda Devel]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora Fonts]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Management Tools]     [Fedora Mentors]     [SSH]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora R Devel]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kickstart]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Fedora Legal]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora OCaml]     [Coolkey]     [Virtualization Tools]     [ET Management Tools]     [Yum Users]     [Tux]     [Yosemite News]     [Gnome Users]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]     [Fedora Sparc]     [Fedora Universal Network Connector]     [Libvirt Users]     [Fedora ARM]

  Powered by Linux