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Re: [suse-security] Security issues when using Samba?
  • From: Lars Trebing <ltrebing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:46:04 +0200
  • Message-id: <39F4330C.5AAF67D0@xxxxxxxxxxx>
semat wrote:

> the probelm is that the password is still trasmitted over the network
> in clear text thus anyone running a sniffer on the network may be
> able to get your passwords.

I really don't believe this is true. IMHO Samba's password encryption
mode does provide true password encryption (although I don't quite know
how good this encryption is).

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