Re: Is there a way for Samba to authenticate via PAM?

From: Anthony E. Greene (agreene_at_pobox.com)
Date: 09/22/03

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    On 20-Sep-2003/16:01 -0600, "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@simpaticus.com> wrote:
    >
    >So the general concensus seems to be that no, there is no way for Samba to
    >authenticate via PAM to the /etc/passwd file of system users. Odd, that...

    Not quite. You can use the /etc/passwd database, but then you'd have to enable
    plaintext passwords on your Winboxes. That has not been the default since the
    early Win98 days, and I advise against it.

    Tony 

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