[Samba] Changing the PAM module

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Aug 15 20:44:26 GMT 2007


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Bruno Jacquet wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I want to give access to a shared directory in a way that the user has
> to answer correctly to a trivia question, without the need of a
> username and password. Therefore I've created a PAM module to do just
> that.
> The module works fine with a simple command line application I've done
> to test it. But I can't get Samba to use it.
> 
> - How can I configure Samba so that it uses my module?

pam auth is ignored unless you include --with-pam at compile
time and set 'encrypt passwords = no' in smb.conf.  But do
you need a PAM module for this?  Just use the 'map to guest'
option.




cheers, jerry
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