[Likewise-open-discuss] Getting AD password hashes

[Rafal Szczesniak]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:47:31AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
> We're trying to sync our passwords between Windows and Linux but we do 
> not want to run any network auth on the Linux side like Kerberos, LDAP, 
> Likewise agent, etc. We would rather push out standardized /etc/passwd 
> and /etc/shadow ourselves (and use this data for other purposes, like 
> application auth). Of course we need password hashes for this.

Even given you had password (nt) hash it is still different hashing
algorithm than used for /etc/shadow passwords. The only way to sync
password would be Linux -> Windows (while changing it), but not the other
way around.


cheers,
-- 
Rafal Szczesniak
Samba Team member   http://www.samba.org
Likewise Software   http://www.likewisesoftware.com

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