Samba & Unix users sync

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

> > be treated as a crypt()ed password.  For support of different *authentication*
> > methods (as opposed to crypt(passwd, salt)), you'll still need PAM.
> 
> No, that's not what I saw.  Take a look at Winbind.  Again, I'm working in
> other areas so I'm only aware of these things.  I don't have my teeth in
> them.  What I saw leveraged nsswitch to allow a logon to a Linux box using
> only NTDomain credentials.  ...at least, that's how I understood it. 

that is done by pam_winbind.