[Samba] samba, pam, kerberos

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Oct 22 22:34:52 GMT 2003


On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 05:26, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > So how can I stuck three required options : password encryption true in
> > samba configuration file, usernames in NIS and password authentication over
> > Kerberos ?
> 
> Usernames actually come from NSS; so NIS, LDAP, etc... shouldn't really matter.
> 
> But straight Kerberos authentication to Samba resources is not currently support
> (AFAIK),  there have been several other threads very recently concerning this
> (see the archives).  Indications are that there is no reason it can't be
> supported, and it might be in the future, but isn't currently.

Samba 3.0 supports kerberos authentication for SMB resources as both a
client and a server.  Server-side is currently ADS only, but this should
change shortly.  The problem is to convince the clients to speak
kerberos.

Andrew Bartlett
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