.\"Generated by db2man.xsl. Don't modify this, modify the source. .de Sh \" Subsection .br .if t .Sp .ne 5 .PP \fB\\$1\fR .PP .. .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Ip \" List item .br .ie \\n(.$>=3 .ne \\$3 .el .ne 3 .IP "\\$1" \\$2 .. .TH "SMBPASSWD" 5 "" "" "" .SH NAME smbpasswd \- The Samba encrypted password file .SH "SYNOPSIS" .PP \fIsmbpasswd\fR .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP This tool is part of the \fBsamba\fR(7) suite\&. .PP smbpasswd is the Samba encrypted password file\&. It contains the username, Unix user id and the SMB hashed passwords of the user, as well as account flag information and the time the password was last changed\&. This file format has been evolving with Samba and has had several different formats in the past\&. .SH "FILE FORMAT" .PP The format of the smbpasswd file used by Samba 2\&.2 is very similar to the familiar Unix \fIpasswd(5)\fR file\&. It is an ASCII file containing one line for each user\&. Each field ithin each line is separated from the next by a colon\&. Any entry beginning with '#' is ignored\&. The smbpasswd file contains the following information for each user: .TP name This is the user name\&. It must be a name that already exists in the standard UNIX passwd file\&. .TP uid This is the UNIX uid\&. It must match the uid field for the same user entry in the standard UNIX passwd file\&. If this does not match then Samba will refuse to recognize this smbpasswd file entry as being valid for a user\&. .TP Lanman Password Hash This is the LANMAN hash of the user's password, encoded as 32 hex digits\&. The LANMAN hash is created by DES encrypting a well known string with the user's password as the DES key\&. This is the same password used by Windows 95/98 machines\&. Note that this password hash is regarded as weak as it is vulnerable to dictionary attacks and if two users choose the same password this entry will be identical (i\&.e\&. the password is not "salted" as the UNIX password is)\&. If the user has a null password this field will contain the characters "NO PASSWORD" as the start of the hex string\&. If the hex string is equal to 32 'X' characters then the user's account is marked as\fBdisabled\fR and the user will not be able to log onto the Samba server\&. \fBWARNING !!\fR Note that, due to the challenge\-response nature of the SMB/CIFS authentication protocol, anyone with a knowledge of this password hash will be able to impersonate the user on the network\&. For this reason these hashes are known as \fBplain text equivalents\fR and must \fBNOT\fR be made available to anyone but the root user\&. To protect these passwords the smbpasswd file is placed in a directory with read and traverse access only to the root user and the smbpasswd file itself must be set to be read/write only by root, with no other access\&. .TP NT Password Hash This is the Windows NT hash of the user's password, encoded as 32 hex digits\&. The Windows NT hash is created by taking the user's password as represented in 16\-bit, little\-endian UNICODE and then applying the MD4 (internet rfc1321) hashing algorithm to it\&. This password hash is considered more secure than the LANMAN Password Hash as it preserves the case of the password and uses a much higher quality hashing algorithm\&. However, it is still the case that if two users choose the same password this entry will be identical (i\&.e\&. the password is not "salted" as the UNIX password is)\&. \fBWARNING !!\fR\&. Note that, due to the challenge\-response nature of the SMB/CIFS authentication protocol, anyone with a knowledge of this password hash will be able to impersonate the user on the network\&. For this reason these hashes are known as \fBplain text equivalents\fR and must \fBNOT\fR be made available to anyone but the root user\&. To protect these passwords the smbpasswd file is placed in a directory with read and traverse access only to the root user and the smbpasswd file itself must be set to be read/write only by root, with no other access\&. .TP Account Flags This section contains flags that describe the attributes of the users account\&. In the Samba 2\&.2 release this field is bracketed by '[' and ']' characters and is always 13 characters in length (including the '[' and ']' characters)\&. The contents of this field may be any of the following characters: .RS .TP 3 \(bu \fBU\fR \- This means this is a "User" account, i\&.e\&. an ordinary user\&. Only User and Workstation Trust accounts are currently supported in the smbpasswd file\&. .TP \(bu \fBN\fR \- This means the account has no password (the passwords in the fields LANMAN Password Hash and NT Password Hash are ignored)\&. Note that this will only allow users to log on with no password if the \fI null passwords\fR parameter is set in the\fBsmb\&.conf\fR(5) config file\&. .TP \(bu \fBD\fR \- This means the account is disabled and no SMB/CIFS logins will be allowed for this user\&. .TP \(bu \fBW\fR \- This means this account is a "Workstation Trust" account\&. This kind of account is used in the Samba PDC code stream to allow Windows NT Workstations and Servers to join a Domain hosted by a Samba PDC\&. .LP .RE Other flags may be added as the code is extended in future\&. The rest of this field space is filled in with spaces\&. .TP Last Change Time This field consists of the time the account was last modified\&. It consists of the characters 'LCT\-' (standing for "Last Change Time") followed by a numeric encoding of the UNIX time in seconds since the epoch (1970) that the last change was made\&. .PP All other colon separated fields are ignored at this time\&. .SH "VERSION" .PP This man page is correct for version 3\&.0 of the Samba suite\&. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP \fBsmbpasswd\fR(8), \fBSamba\fR(7), and the Internet RFC1321 for details on the MD4 algorithm\&. .SH "AUTHOR" .PP The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell\&. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed\&. .PP The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer\&. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open Source software, available at ftp://ftp\&.icce\&.rug\&.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2\&.0 release by Jeremy Allison\&. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2\&.2 was done by Gerald Carter\&. The conversion to DocBook XML 4\&.2 for Samba 3\&.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy\&.