[Samba] SAMBA using existing users and passwords on Linux

[Fernando Gonçalves]

This is very problematic for me!
In this LINUX VM I have registered more than 40 users for over 10 years.
I wouldn't even bother having to register everyone on SAMBA, the question
is the passwords of these users.

Em seg., 1 de jun. de 2020 às 20:09, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
escreveu:

> 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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