Comment 1 for bug 163194

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote : Re: need option to disable creation of lanman hashes

This option already exists. If you add
lanman auth = no
lm announce = no
min protocol = NT1
To smb.conf then it smbpasswd no longer seems to generate the horrific lanman hashes. Apparently in Vista Microsoft took the initiative and disabled the storing of these weak passwords by default.