Authentification via PAM AND smbpasswd

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 olpa at sybcom.de wrote:

> I experienced a bit with SAMBA <-> LDAP and this will require the change
> of the schema for the NDS. 

> I thought more of something like

> 	password encryption for machines = yes
> 	password encryption for users    = no

> and then, for the latter case use PAM (and thus NDS)

This is not possible, because that's not how NT works.  An NT workstation
won't authenticate against the domain controller using plaintext passwords, so
configuring the PDC to use them wouldn't gain you anything.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer