PAM and Samba

[Nathan Yocom]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 08:05, Esquivel, Vicente wrote:
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>>Has anyone successfully been using PAM to authenticate Samba users
>>using their /etc/shadow passwords? 
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>The encryption is different. It would only be possible if you have
>changed a registry setting on every windows client to make them send
>the passwords in plain text.
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Or have "plaintext passwords = yes" or "encrypted passwords = no" ... 
something like that in samba (so that it uses plain text passwords.. 
check the man page on smb.conf for details)
Nate