[Samba] SAMBA using existing users and passwords on Linux

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2020-06-01 at 19:02 -0300, Fernando Gonçalves via samba wrote:
> Good afternoon.
> I really need some help.
> I have a VM running Oracle Linux version 7 and samba version 4.10.4.
> I want samba to use local Linux users and passwords (/ etc / passwd
> and /
> etc / shadow).
> As I researched on the internet it would be enough to configure samba
> to
> not encrypt passwords, through the item:
> 
> encrypt passwords = no

This option very rarely works and requires SMB1 when it does.  Most
clients refuse to send a plaintext password, and when they do they
refuse the reconnect transperently so the user experience is horrible.

Sorry, but you essentially must use encrypted passwords or Kerberos.

Andrew Bartlett

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