Samba and pam

[Andrew Bartlett]

Matthieu Exbrayat wrote:
> 
> Hie all,
> 
> We have a problem with our samba configuration :
> - We use a samba server running under solaris,
> - Our clients can either be running solaris, windows or linux
> - Our Solaris (and linux) clients use the NIS identification mecanism.
> 
> We would like that when a user changes its password on a Solaris (or
> linux) client,
> the password is changed both in the nis passwd database and in the
> smbpasswd database.
> 
> This is currently working for Solaris clients : We use PAM
> (we added the following line : "other   password required
> /usr/lib/security/pam_smb_passwd.so")
> + /usr/lib/security/pam_smb_passwd.so
> 
> The problem is that our pam_smb_passwd.so file is a old version we got
> from an old samba server. Moreover it is compiled for Solaris.
> We would like to compile it, in order to have a new version for Solaris,
> and to have a version for linux.
> But I cannot identified neither the source files for this module nor the
> way I should compile it.
> 
> - Which module is the right one? pam_smbpass? pam_smb? any other?
> - Where might I get it?
> - Is there any trick to compile it?

./configure --with-pam_smbpass in the latest Samba 2.2 or 3.0 version (I
think its working in both).

Andrew Bartlett

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