[Samba] samba with NTLM *and* kerberos authentication

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Aug 8 18:10:43 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 16:41 -0400, alex.nishri at utoronto.ca wrote:
> We have an existing samba server with many userids, using NTLM 
> authentication (stored in OpenLDAP). We would like to add many other
> userids, which will authenticate against an existing MIT kerberos server.
> Each of our customers will have either an NTLM-based userid/password, or
> a kerberos-based userid/password, but never both.
> 
> We would like both kinds of userids to work with the same samba server.
> e.g. in a PC lab, if a customer enters kerberosUserid at REALMNAME.EDU
> it should authenticate against our kerberos server, and allow access
> to that user's Samba space; if another customer enters NTLMUserid,
> it should authenticate using NTLM (stored in our OpenLDAP), and
> allow access to that user's Samba space.
> 
> Is this possible ?

This should be possible, if you setup samba into the kerberos realm with
cifs/.... and host/.... entries.  Put 'use kerberos keytab = yes' in
your smb.conf, and it should sort of work.

Have a play, see how you go.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc.        http://suse.de
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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