Samba and Kerberos

[Kenneth Stephen]

On 3 Jan 2003, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 10:50, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hi Kenneth,
> >
> > It appears that the --with-krb5 option is currently used in connection
> > with exactly this feature, and that the previous plaintext Kerberos
> > support has been dropped in 3.0.
>
> It was dropped because that functionality is better implemented via
> pam_krb5.  A patch to re-instate this functionality as an auth module
> will probably be accepted, if people really want it...
>
Andrew,

	What is pam_krb5? Is it an OS level component that is specific to
Solaris / Linux or is it a Samba module?

Thanks,
Kenneth