Re: NT 4 Server

Tim Burgess wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > Has anybody had experience with exporting the NT 4 Server's users
> > and putting them into the format of username:password, so I can
> > use proxy_auth on squid?
>
> This is why you would use SMB_auth, the package which was publicised on this
> mailing list a little over a week ago. It communicates with the NT server
> when the user authenticates, so the passwords are always up to date.
>
> And theoretically no - NT will not disclose passwords 'in the clear' to
> anyone, not even sysadmins. To do it your way you would have to write a
> custom password changing script and store the passwords in a cleartext file
> as well as tell them to NT.
>
> Bad idea security-wise though.

NT provides a way to receive notification at password change and to get
the cleartext new password, to synchronise with a different database or
to filter the passwords.

See http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/public/cc/ccanf/kb.htm for a complete
explanation.

Guillaume.
Received on Thu Jun 10 1999 - 00:48:32 MDT