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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users samba questions (password conversion to blowfish and is it wise to sync the useraccou Post 32077 by LivinFree on Monday 18th of November 2002 04:22:33 PM
Old 11-18-2002
I wouldn't worry as much with getting the stored Samba passwd in a harder-to-crack format - it's kind of like locking a screen door (assuming the screen door already has a big hole in it). It's much easier to grab the password hash off the network, or grab a copy of an old SAM file from at NT box...
 

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REGPATCH(1)						    System Administration tools 					       REGPATCH(1)

NAME
regpatch - Applies registry patches to registry files SYNOPSIS
regpatch [--help] [--backend=BACKEND] [--credentials=CREDENTIALS] [location] [patch-file] DESCRIPTION
The regpatch utility applies registry patches to Windows registry files. The patch files should have the same format as is being used by the regdiff utility and regedit32.exe from Windows. If no patch file is specified on the command line, regpatch attempts to read it from standard input. OPTIONS
--help Show list of available options. --backend BACKEND Name of backend to load. Possible values are: creg, regf, dir and rpc. The default is dir. --credentials=CREDENTIALS Credentials to use, if any. Password should be separated from user name by a percent sign. VERSION
This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite. SEE ALSO
regdiff, regtree, regshell, gregedit, samba, diff, patch AUTHOR
This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2]. This manpage and regpatch were written by Jelmer Vernooij. NOTES
1. Samba http://www.samba.org/ 2. Samba Team http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ Samba 4.0 06/17/2014 REGPATCH(1)
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