Samba and Kerberos

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:31, Kenneth Stephen wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3 Jan 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 10:50, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Hi Kenneth,
> > >
> > > It appears that the --with-krb5 option is currently used in connection
> > > with exactly this feature, and that the previous plaintext Kerberos
> > > support has been dropped in 3.0.
> >
> > It was dropped because that functionality is better implemented via
> > pam_krb5.  A patch to re-instate this functionality as an auth module
> > will probably be accepted, if people really want it...
> >
> Andrew,
> 
> 	What is pam_krb5? Is it an OS level component that is specific to
> Solaris / Linux or is it a Samba module?

It is a PAM module, various versions of which are available for
Linux/Solaris and other PAM enabled systems.

Andrew Bartlett

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