Web site developers - Option Parameters Function Default Scope null passwords boolean
Option Parameters Function Default Scope null passwords boolean If yes, Samba allows access for users with null passwords. no Global smb passwd file string (fully-qualified pathname) Specifies the name of the encrypted password file. /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd Global hosts equiv string (fully-qualified pathname) Specifies the name of a file that contains hosts and users that can connect without using a password. None Global use rhosts string (fully-qualified pathname) Specifies the name of an .rhosts file that allows users to connect without using a password. None Global 6.4.4.1 unix password sync The unixpasswordsyncglobal option allows Samba to update the standard Unix password file when a user changes his or her encrypted password. The encrypted password is stored on a Samba server in the smbpasswd file, which is located in /usr/local/samba/private by default. You can activate this feature as follows: [global] unix password sync = yes If this option is enabled, Samba changes the encrypted password and, in addition, attempts to change the standard Unix password by passing the username and new password to the program specified by the passwdprogramoption (described earlier). Note that Samba does not necessarily have access to the plaintext password for this user, so the password changing program must be invoked as root.[3] If the Unix password change does not succeed, for whatever reason, the SMB password will not be changed either. [3] This is because the Unix passwd program, which is the usual target for this operation, allows rootto change a user s password without the security restriction that requests the old password of that user. 6.4.4.2 encrypt passwords The encryptpasswordsglobal option switches Samba from using plaintext passwords to encrypted passwords for authentication. Encrypted passwords will be expected from clients if the option is set to yes: 204
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