Samba as a gateway to OpenAFS
Love
lha at stacken.kth.se
Wed May 29 04:38:03 GMT 2002
Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at pcug.org.au> writes:
> > > > > 1. Get rid of AFS's need for plaintext passwords.
[....]
> > Ah, of course credential forwarding/proxying would be a requirement for
> > making this work without giving the gateway special privileges; I'd
> > completely overlooked that. I'm afraid I don't know the answer, though.
> > Perhaps someone currently doing Samba 3.0 work has run into this and can
> > say?
>
> I see no reason why this would not be possible. We would need to do a
> little bit of work on the smbd side of things, but credential forwarding
> is pretty standard. This assumes either a AD domain, or Samba modified
> to correctlly function with krb5 but without AD (which also implies
> windows clients joined to such a domain).
So, so how do you tell the client to forward creds to the fileserver, and
can you chose want creds you want to forward ?
Love
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