[nzlug] Samba Passwords

[Karl.]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:36:33PM +1300, Nevyn wrote:
> Does anyone know where samba stashes away user information? I.e. when I  
> run:
> smbpasswd -a username
> to add a user for samba access but does anyone know where this
> information is stored?

try:
man 5 smbpasswd

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NAME   
       smbpasswd - The Samba encrypted password file

SYNOPSIS
       smbpasswd

DESCRIPTION
       This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

       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.