User authentication.

[Gerald Carter]

"Dave P." wrote:
> 
> My final goal, if this can shed more light on what I'm 
> trying to do,  is to make an authentication process that 
> will work with NCFTPD which is running on the LINUX machine.

You need to use the winbind PAM module.  See the article
on Samba.org and rfcs/docs relating to PAM





Cheers, jerry
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