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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news.utelfla.com!hobbes.crc.com!usenet From: dpb@monster.hqs.crc.com (Dan Benjamin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: passwd encryption Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 17:22:17 GMT Organization: Coleman Research Corporation Lines: 23 Message-ID: <513tkg$l7i@hobbes.crc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pelican.hqs.crc.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Hello, We have a samba server that handles the sharing of drives it mounts via nfs from a solaris server. This system is fine, however we run into problems when giving users access to these services using the passwd file. The solaris box uses a different encryption scheme than FreeBSD (of course) and this makes for a problem - users cannot simply be added to the FreeBSD samba server - we must *force* them to login and manually set a new password - to match the one on the solaris box. Any suggestions as to how I might somehow change the FreeBSD encryption scheme so it matches solaris - or any other suggestions to eliminate some of the problem? We have a growing network of about 100 users, so the problem is not trivial. TIA, Dan Benjamin