[Samba] samba authentication

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 15:23, Daniel Provin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've read a lot about setting up samba as a password server, and
> authenticating unix users against a samba server, but is there
> any way to authenticate samba users (like on logon) against
> the unix users and passwords (th users on the passwd and on the
> shadow files)?
yes you can do it with unencrypted passwords
i don't recommend this...

in practice it is not a problem to keep the unix and samba passwords in
sync
(pam_smbpass for unix password changes) and 
the samba built in unix updaters for changes from windows.

brad
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Bradley W. Langhorst <brad at langhorst.com>