Samba vs PAM

[William R. Knox]

Samba will authenticate against the smbpasswd file when the parameter
"encrypt passwords" is set to true in the smb.conf file. In order to use
a PAM based password, you are going to have to disable the encrypt
passwords parameter. This means, if you are using NT 4.0 SP3 or greater
or a more recent release of Win95 (I can't remember exactly which) or
any release of Win98, that you will have to enable clear text passwords
from the desktop with a registry hack. See the Win95.txt and WinNT.txt
files in the documents tree in the Samba directory for details.

Let me know if this works out for you. Good luck!

-- 
			Bill Knox
			Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

Marek Les wrote:
> 
> Hello..
> 
> I wonder, in which way Samba supports PAM? I downloaded
> samba-2.0.6-19991110 and there I found in changelog it's compiled
> with --with-pam..
> 
> My desire is to authenticate Samba users against Novell NDS. I
> managed to do this (under Linux) with many programs but Samba somehow
> resists :)
> 
> I put something like this into /etc/pam.d/samba :
> 
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_ncp_auth.so use_first_pass
> server=some_server
> 
> But Samba still authenticates against smbpasswd :( .. one more
> question - is there a way to completely disable the need of smbpasswd
> if I want to authenticate _only_ against Novell NDS ?
> 
> Please help :-)
> 
> Thanx..
> 
>      Marek "MaX" Le¹
>