[Samba] ldap pam and samba

[Peter Hübschen]

Hello,

I haven't tried it, but hopefully soon I will (there are some problems 
with the LDAP-server (nds). I think this should work:
- compile samba with the "--with-pam" option
- install nss_ldap and pam_ldap, configure them, test them
and it should work.

I had the following testsetup and it worked:
- Client configured with nss_ldap and pam_ldap.
- OpenLDAP-Server on an other box
and I could login from the client. So the way was:

login -> pam -> pam_ldap -> LDAP-Server
and it worked.

You have the following way:
samba -> pam -> pam_ldap-> LDAP-Server
so I think, this should work.

One thing I'm not sure about:
If you want to use samba as PDC for Win2k/XP this doesn't work via pam.


Hope that helps
Peter


dweise wrote:

> hello,
>    can i authenticate samba to pam and then ldap? thank you.
>
> --David Weise
>   OIT
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