On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Asoka Anon wrote:
> Hello, I have had nothing but trouble with samba after a very brief
> period of acctually having it work, so I know it is possible. Well, I
> am prepared to start trying again, and so I have been doing alot of
> reading. Tell me if I am wrong here: suse7.2 uses shadow and/or md5
> passwords? Suse7.2 also uses PAM? When compiling samba, I am/am not
> required to use --with_pam and --with-pam_smbpass? What about also
> using --with-md5? Basically what Im asking is, does having these
> things on my system make using them with samba required? Is it all
> optional, like...dont need it but it adds more security?
Have you read the section on PAM in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
file? I would recommend starting there.
cheers, jerry
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