Samba 2.2.8a and Solaris 8 Pam Mod

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:39:57PM -0800, Todd Johnson wrote:

> I would like to get PAM working with the new instance of SMB (2.2.8a). I 
> am upgrading us from 2.2.2 tonight to 2.2.8a. I know the pam mod is
> integrated with Sol8 to a point but was wondering how to configure Samba
> to use the Pam mod so that it authenticats off of my NIS passwd file so 
> that I do not have to continually keep adding smb users to an smbpasswd 
> file.

PAM, and any other authentication mechanism that takes a plaintext
password as input, is fundamentally incapable of addressing the needs of
Windows clients that use encrypted passwords on the wire (which is what
smbpasswd is for).

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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