[Samba] Need PAM to use winbind in Solaris 8?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Mon Feb 18 11:02:02 GMT 2002


"Thomas, Daniel J." wrote:
> 
> I'm just curious to see if I'm fighting an uphill battle that isn't really
> necessary.  Is anyone out there NOT using PAM, running Samba and winbind on
> Solaris 8?  Maybe my problems are related to my attempt to keep it simple
> and not use pam.

Nothing in winbind requires PAM.  pam_winbind just provides an
authenticaion service that may or may not be needed at your site - and
is not used by Samba itself.

Andrew Bartlett

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