Unified password file
Sean E. Millichamp
sean at compu-aid.com
Tue Feb 3 02:37:15 GMT 1998
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998 samba-list at zimage.com wrote:
> Hello,
> Does anyone know how to unify the /etc/passwd and NT style
> passwords in SAMBA? It seems like this is going to be more and more
> important when the NTDOM stuff gets release at some point in time.
> I've thought about it and can come up with:
>
> o Create a smbpasswd file and use the SMB PAM module
> to authenticate everyone.
> o Just use the less secure passwords.
> o Create a new unified passwd system file for Unix.
> Can it still be used with NIS/NIS+, etc?
> o.Make a new module for NT/Win95 systems that is more
> compatible with SAMBA/Unix.
> o Wait for MS to adopt Kerberos.
>
> Is there any other ideas?
>
> ...Jeff
Hi Jeff,
I don't have any other ideas, but I did want to comment on your last
option. Do not hold your breath for MS to adopt standard Kerberos. Last
time I heard (back in October I think) Microsoft decided not to adopt
standard Kerberos v5 in NT 5 and confirmed that they will instead
implement a proprietary flavor of Kerberos v5 that may be incompatible
with existing systems.
I hope I am wrong on this one and that someone else will have more
information.
Best,
Sean
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