PAM and Samba

[Nathan Yocom]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 18:24, Nathan Yocom 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)
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>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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>
Right, my apologies, the "Or" in my reply was mispoken :) both steps are 
required (i.e. 1 change on the server, 1 change per client).
Nate