[Bacula-devel] Continuing the win95 question

[Phil S. <al...@ca...>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:19:27PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Kern,
> 
> I just tested my first Winbacula run, with less than stellar results.  I
> think I'm missing some information on getting a Windows client working,
> but I don't know what.  I think it may be a password issue.  What should
> the interrelationship between passwords in the various resources be?
> I'm not clear on this, and as everything else looks to be correct, I'm
> figuring it's most likely a password issue.


Actually, on a related question, is there any valid reason why the
passwords created at installation time are stored as what look like MD5
hashes? If anyone can get access to the files, they can copy the hashes
just as easily as a cleartext password.  My /opt/bacula install tree is
readable only by root anyway ...  is there a good reason why I shouldn't
use plain cleartext passwords in the Bacula config files?  In the
absence of ability to paste between Unix and Windows, this would
ease getting the passwords set up right.




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