Samba PDC as a password server
John R Lane
lanejohn at cps.msu.edu
Tue Apr 28 21:38:06 GMT 1998
Dana> All this talk about passwords leads me to ask the
Dana> question... Are there any plans for an "official" way to get
Dana> Unix users into the smbpasswd file? Without resorting to
Dana> patched GINA (which is impractical if you need to use the
Dana> Netware GINA anyway), the only way I can think of is to tell
Dana> users that the first time they log into an NT machine, they
Dana> need to log in as a guest (with restricted permissions),
Dana> then run telnet to the Unix machine, then change their
Dana> password. Does anyone know of a better way? I realize this
It would seem that one could use PAM (for those running Solaris or RH
Linux, at least) on the unix side and have it relay a user's (correct)
password to the samba server. Not pretty, but ... has anyone done
this? Of course, this would mean they would have to log into a unix
box first.
jrl. (Sorry if this is off-topic.)
System Manager
Department of Computer Science
Michigan State University
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