A.P. Lawrence

This article is from a FAQ concerning SCO operating systems. While some of the information may be applicable to any OS, or any Unix or Linux OS, it may be specific to SCO Xenix, Open Desktop or Openserver.

There is lots of Linux, Mac OS X and general Unix info elsewhere on this site: Search this site is the best way to find anything.

OSR5 FAQ

How do I convert Visionfs to encrypted passwords?

Old versions of Visionfs could not handle encrypted passwords. Current versions can, and you should use this feature.

First run the visionfs setup program:

 /usr/vision/bin/visionfs setup

Switch to Visionfs (encrypted) passwords (or pass the whole problem off to an NT server).

That will offer to run the password wizard. If it doesn't, or if you want to run it again, do:

 /usr/vision/bin/visionfs password --wizard

Here you can choose some automatic passwords. For example, you can start by making the passwords the same as the login name- so "sam" gets "sam" as a password.

The wizard lets you edit a file of names and passwords before it finishes. You also can change passwords at any time; to change Sam's password to "8y5fg" you can:

 /usr/vision/bin/visionfs password --amend sam 9y5fg

Windows 2000 and XP have a feature called "digital signing": Technet Article on SMB Digital Signing

So does 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555652

(Microsoft moves stuff around a lot - if those links don't work, just search "Digital Signing" on their site)

which is apparently turned on if the server is functioning as a domain controller. Samba and other non-Microsoft SMB products don't support this yet though Samba does have it in the 3.0.0 beta: http://us1.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0beta3.html.