Not *completely* relevant

[Matthew Keller]

Matthew Geddes wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm looking at having a single login/password for our users to access
> mail, logging into the NT domain, proxy authentication and others. What
> I'm after is your opinion on whether using something like PAM_SMB to
> authenticate the unix accounts is a good idea. The PDC is Linux with
> Samba-TNG as are all other servers bar one (NT). The load shouldn't be
> enough to break it.
> 
> So, do you trust the NT Authentication method over the Unix one?
> 
> I realise that it will mean an increase in network traffic around my
> servers, but how much?
> 
> Does this sound like a *really* stupid idea for some reason I have quite
> obviously overlooked?

	I have many many servers with over 5000 active users authenticating
over pam_smb. Works very nice (NO shell access except for admins- just
file/print sharing over Netatalk (Mac services) Samba and NFS.

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