Re: smbldap tools

[Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>]

>I'm using the smbldap tools to enter in users to a LDAP directory.  For the 
>password, it's making 3 entries, lmPassword, ntPassword, and userPassword.  
>Does anyone know which hashing algorithms they each use?  Also, what are 
>each of those entries used for?  Thanks !!!

userPassword is the "posixAccount" password,  it is crypted the way you 
tell it to;  could be clear text, triple-des, crypt(), md5, sha, etc...

lmPassword is the LAN manager encrytped password.  Used by legacity PC 
operating systems like Wfwg, OS/2, early-early versions of Win9x.

ntPassword is the NT-MD5 hash used for challange response by the Microsoft 
domain model.

Samba manages lmPassword and ntPassword,  typically userPassword is 
managed via "passwd".  Samba can call "passwd" on behalf of the user 
whenever the lmPasswd/ntPassword pair change.  Thus creating the illusion 
of a unified password.