[PATCH] Remove pam_smbpass module from Samba source code

Michael DePaulo mikedep333 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 19:03:47 MST 2015


On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 7:48 AM, TAKAHASHI Motonobu/高橋 基信
<monyo at monyo.com> wrote:
[...]
> But on standalone boxes, pam_smbpass is still used to sync UNIX
> password to Samba. This works fine so we do not need any change to
> this module, I think.
>
> Currently, there are no altinatives, so pam_smbpass is still
> required.
[...]

We also need it for this reason. See "Password Synchronization Configuration":
https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/pam.html


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