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add the 5 missing chapters from the HOWTO
and add jht's Samba by Example book.
(This used to be commit 9fb5bcb93e)
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XML
50 lines
2.2 KiB
XML
<samba:parameter name="password level"
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context="G"
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type="integer"
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advanced="1" developer="1"
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xmlns:samba="http://samba.org/common">
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<description>
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<para>Some client/server combinations have difficulty
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with mixed-case passwords. One offending client is Windows for
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Workgroups, which for some reason forces passwords to upper
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case when using the LANMAN1 protocol, but leaves them alone when
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using COREPLUS! Another problem child is the Windows 95/98
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family of operating systems. These clients upper case clear
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text passwords even when NT LM 0.12 selected by the protocol
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negotiation request/response.</para>
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<para>This parameter defines the maximum number of characters
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that may be upper case in passwords.</para>
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<para>For example, say the password given was "FRED". If <parameter moreinfo="none">
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password level</parameter> is set to 1, the following combinations
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would be tried if "FRED" failed:</para>
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<para>"Fred", "fred", "fRed", "frEd","freD"</para>
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<para>If <parameter moreinfo="none">password level</parameter> was set to 2,
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the following combinations would also be tried: </para>
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<para>"FRed", "FrEd", "FreD", "fREd", "fReD", "frED", ..</para>
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<para>And so on.</para>
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<para>The higher value this parameter is set to the more likely
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it is that a mixed case password will be matched against a single
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case password. However, you should be aware that use of this
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parameter reduces security and increases the time taken to
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process a new connection.</para>
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<para>A value of zero will cause only two attempts to be
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made - the password as is and the password in all-lower case.</para>
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<para>This parameter is used only when using plain-text passwords. It is
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not at all used when encrypted passwords as in use (that is the default
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since samba-3.0.0). Use this only when <link linkend="ENCRYPTPASSWORDS">
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encrypt passwords = No</link>.</para>
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</description>
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<value type="default">0</value>
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<value type="example">4</value>
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</samba:parameter>
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