Samba mangling method

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 15:32 -0700, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> I have searched google and found a million articles about the hash over-flow 
> bug in the hash mangling method, but what exactley is this?
> I'm having a problem logging in to a samba ldap machine and I'm just curious 
> if the hash2 has something to do with it as I've never used it before and 
> can't find it in any of my books...
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my only knowledge of 'mangling' with respect to samba is that it is
simply about file names and would not have any impact on user logins.

Craig