Richard
note- too tired to pick out the cc:s, sorry...
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Dale E. Reed Jr. wrote:
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:51:44 -0700
> From: "Dale E. Reed Jr." <daler@iea.com>
> To: Robert Hiltibidal <rob@rob.fgi.net>
> Cc: Sherwood Portmaster-List <livingston@iav.com>,
> portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Subject: Re: NT and UNIX
>
> Robert Hiltibidal wrote:
> >
> > I need to come up with a way to move unix style passwords into nt
> > passwords. I've got two months before implementation....
>
> There is not an easy way. UNIX passwords are one-way encrypted.
> The only way to de-crypt is with a dictionary, and even then
> you won't get all of them (or most of them, or some of them).
>
> > Understand we are told by Microsoft there is no way to import the
> > passwords. I'm hoping they are wrong... over 4000 passwords
>
> For once they are not. Have to mark that one (guess there is a
> first for everything).
>
> > running a sniffer... not my favorite
> > manually cracking the the password file
> > retyping all those usernames and passwords..
>
> If you are interested in RadiusNT, it has an option to replace
> passwords in ODBC mode. Its very similar to your sniffer idea,
> but does it automatically. The users come in authing with PAP
> (chap doesn't work here) and RadiusNT has the clear text password.
> It auths that against your unix passwd file and can verify that
> it is indeed the password. Then it stores that password over
> the "UNIX" password. We can do that with WINNT passwords as
> well. Then if you use a mail server like NTMail that can
> auth from an Emerald DB, you are set.
>
> --
> Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com)
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