[Samba] plaintext backend

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Karel Kulhavy wrote:
| Hello
|
| I would like to use plaintext backend with a
| simple Samba 3.0.6 configuration to get rid of
| the system of double passwords and rely just
| on the plain old unix /etc/passwd ones.

The just set 'encrypt passwords = no'.  It should
be pretty simple really.


|
| However I couldn't find any information about it in
| 1) man smb.conf
| 2) online Samba official HOWTO

There's a reason why you can't find any
information about it.  There's no such thing as
a 'plaintext' passdb backend.

$ grep smb_register_passdb *.c | grep -v ^NT
pdb_guest.c:    return smb_register_passdb(PASSDB_INTERFACE_VERSION,
"guest", pdb_init_guestsam);
pdb_interface.c:NTSTATUS smb_register_passdb(int version, const char
*name, pdb_init_function init)
pdb_ldap.c:     if (!NT_STATUS_IS_OK(nt_status =
smb_register_passdb(PASSDB_INTERFACE_VERSION, "ldapsam", pdb_init_ldapsam)))
pdb_ldap.c:     if (!NT_STATUS_IS_OK(nt_status =
smb_register_passdb(PASSDB_INTERFACE_VERSION, "ldapsam_compat",
pdb_init_ldapsam_compat)))
pdb_mysql.c:    return smb_register_passdb(PASSDB_INTERFACE_VERSION,
"mysql", mysqlsam_init);
pdb_pgsql.c:  return smb_register_passdb( PASSDB_INTERFACE_VERSION,
"pgsql", pgsqlsam_init ) ;
pdb_smbpasswd.c:        return
smb_register_passdb(PASSDB_INTERFACE_VERSION, "smbpasswd",
pdb_init_smbpasswd);
pdb_tdb.c:      return smb_register_passdb(PASSDB_INTERFACE_VERSION,
"tdbsam", pdb_init_tdbsam);
pdb_xml.c:      return smb_register_passdb(PASSDB_INTERFACE_VERSION,
"xml", xmlsam_init);

| I tried putting passdb backend = plaintext into a
| smb.conf file with security=share and the Samba server
| doesn't seem to work at all:

My recommendation is to never use 'security = share'.
99% of the the time, it is better to use 'security = user'
and 'map to guest = bad user'







cheers, jerry
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