lookups in smbpasswd file

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Danny Braniss wrote:

> In message <34FD8A71.2447B0E0 at eng.auburn.edu>you write:
> }Greetings once again...
> }
> firstly, thanks to everybody who helped me out!
> 
> for the last 2 weeks or so, I have been trying out the PDC and finaly,
> today it's all bells & whistles. The last hurdle (well almost :-) was
> getting the logon to work (using arcfour).
> 
> In the process I got familiar with the code, and I had to patch
> several versions, making samba work with my password server - which of
> cource had to be modified to accomodate NT/LanMan and finaly arcfour
> hashed passwords.
> 
> While doing this, I'm still trying to come up with a simple way to
> include my mods in future samba releases. Since the mods are
> 'particular' to our site I see no point in including them in the
> distribution, but it would be nice to define some way a 'standard api'
> for authentication and so guys like me could add them localy.

this is *exactly* what i want to see happen.

luke