Samba and PAM

[Eric Reischer]

Actually, I'm probably trying to get from Philadelphia to New York via 
China here, because my end means is to be able to get samba to pass 
authentication requests to a kerberos4 server.  I found a PAM module for 
kerberos, but I just noticed that 2.2 has support for kerberos.  I'm a 
little fuzzy on one thing though....I'm confused as to what the 
"base-directory" is.  I read the definition in the Configuring Samba 
Chapter 2, but I still don't know what it's looking for in that 
directory.  Libraries, binaries, configuration files.......there's a 
separate folder for each of the above.

Thanks again in advance,
Eric


At 12:22 AM 3/30/01 , Richard Sharpe wrote:
>At 03:23 PM 3/30/01 +0930, Matthew Geddes wrote:
> >Eric Reischer wrote:
> >>
> >> I've been trying to get samba to authenticate against PAM for a couple 
> days
> >> now, but unfortunately have not been successful.  I am using the 2.2alpha3
> >> version (freshly compiled) on a Debian Linux 2.2 machine.  I specified
> >> --with-pam at configure time, but when I try to connect to a shared
> >> service, I get invalid password.  It checks (in order):
>
>Hmmm, do you have a file in /etc/pam.d called samba?
>
>Does it have the correct entries in it?
>
>If not, then you will get denied ...
>
> >I believe Samba only uses PAM for the Unix account side of things (ie,
> >not authentication, but permissions and RID mapping). Unless you have
> >configured Samba and all of your Windows machines to not encrypt
> >passwords. All of this is explained in detail in a text file in the
> >Samba documentation, I believe.
> >
> >Hope it helps,
> >Matt
> >
>
>Regards
>-------
>Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
>Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.ethereal.com)
>Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
>Author, Special Edition, Using Samba