Subject: Re: We love DHX. As for Samba...
From: Matthew Keller (kellermg@potsdam.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 09:29:33 EDT
Marc Miller wrote:
>
> We use NIS for most of our password validation, so we've been very pleased
> with the availability of DHX login encryption. Now, I know this is a bit
> off-topic, but I wasn't sure if the SMB folks would even know what DHX
> was. Is there a way to have the password encrypted during transmission to
> be compared to the NIS database? (I'm told it would be a relatively
> simple matter if our passwords were in the /etc/passwd file)
SMB uses its own MD5-based encryption which is much "more better" than
DHX from a cryptological standpoint.
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