PAM and Samba

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 18:24, Nathan Yocom wrote:
> >
> >>Has anyone successfully been using PAM to authenticate Samba users
> >>using their /etc/shadow passwords? 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >  
> >
> 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)

No, you have to do both.  Somewhere around service pack 4 for NT,
Microsoft changed their default, making it more difficult to
use a Samba server with existing unix accounts.  Current windows
clients won't send plaintext without the registry change even
if the server permits it.

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  Les Mikesell
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