[Samba] Authentication question
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Fri Jul 12 10:31:48 GMT 2002
giuliano wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'd like to know if it's possible to use a radius server to
> authenticate samba users. If it's possible, where can I found the docs
> for this ?
You can use Samba's PAM support to use pam_radius - but this presents
all the usual problems of plaintext passwords.
Samba's encrypted password support can only be backended by a smbpasswd
file or a NT-compatible domain.
Andrew Bartlett
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