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
