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List:       ms-cifs
Subject:    Re: Share Security and Password Encryption - Possible?
From:       "Lennon, Paul" <PLennon () KOFAX ! COM>
Date:       1998-01-14 20:52:34
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Thanks for responding.  The CIFS specification (dated March 13, 1997),
section 10.1 paragraph 2 stated that this was not possible.  Perhaps the
next revison of the document should say it can.

What is the mechanism used to encrypt the password?

Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Leach [SMTP:paulle@MICROSOFT.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 3:32 PM
> To:   CIFS@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
> Subject:      Re: Share Security and Password Encryption - Possible?
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Lennon, Paul[SMTP:PLennon@KOFAX.COM]
> > Reply To:     Common Internet File System
> > Sent:         Wednesday, January 14, 1998 12:14 PM
> > To:   CIFS@DISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
> > Subject:      Share Security and Password Encryption - Possible?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm writing an SMB server.  At present I'm not interested in
> supporting
> > "user" level security, "share" is sufficient.  I also wasn't
> planning on
> > using encrypted passwords.  I have since learned that NT 4.0 w/SP3
> > doesn't send plaintext passwords over the wire.  There is a registry
> > flag that could be set which will enable an NT machine to use
> plaintext
> > passwords, but I'd like to avoid that kludge.  Is it possible to use
> > encrypted passwords with share level security?
> >
> >
> Yes.
>
> Paul
>
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