[Samba] Samba as gateway MIT kerberos

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Warren Yuen wrote:
| Hi,
|
| We have Windows2k machines connected and authenticated with Samba.  We
also
| have MIT kerberos for Linux systems.
|
| What we want to do is using samba as a gateway, clients using Windows2k
| machines can access their AFS file space.
|
| We are trying to encrypt the usernames and passwords and send to samba
side
| which then decrypt and retrieve the plain-text password. Does Samba have
| functionalites to get the AFS tickets and tokens? Any patches on Samba
| required?
|
| Or is there any "standard" or better way to work with this problem? PAM?
|
| I've been looking for some detail descriptions of the following
options. Are
| these options relevant to my situation?
|
| --with-afs
| --with-fake-kaserver
| --with-krb5=base-directory

Yes, but Volker is better suited to explain how it works.
Or point you towards some documentation.





cheers, jerry
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