Comment 3 for bug 163194

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 163194] Re: need option to disable creation of lanman hashes

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:22:03PM -0000, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> 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.

Ah, this seems to indeed be the case - "lanman auth" is the magic switch, I
missed that in the documentation.

So all that remains is to set this by default in the Ubuntu samba package.
:)