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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au, linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 15:20:31 +1000

Re: Can Samba Password Authenticate With WinNT Password ?

At 09:23 AM 1/4/00 +1030, Matthew Geddes wrote:
>ya hoo wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>   I'm new to SAMBA. Hope somebody can help me for the
>> answer.
>>
>>   Can SAMBA password authenticate again with my
>> Window NT server password ?
>>
>>   Meant that, I only want to maintance only single
>> password file in my WindowNT server. When user login
>> to Win95 or WinNT client PC, the user entered password
>>
>> is authicated with WinNT server password.

As I said before, this can be done with 

   security = server

and an appropriate setting of password server.

>>  Is this possible can be done ?
>>
>> Please advice. Thank
>>
>> Regards,
>>   CHAR
>>
>
>Try PAM_SMB. I'm unsure of the location, but try searching the archive for
>this list.

If you need both UNIX logons and SMB server logons authenticated against an
NT server, then you do need something like PAM_SMB or PAM_NTDOM for UNIX
logons, but you would still probably be better off with security=server
with Samba.

Please be aware that PAM_SMB has some deficiencies:

1. Does not handle encrypted passwords
2. It uses SMBlib, which has some buffer overflows in it that I have not
had a chance to fix.

>Matt
>
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Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course