samba - Mar 2002 - Re: samba digest, Vol 1 #1039 - 15 msgs

Hi All,

Is there anyway to have multiple password authorisation servers?

In my smb.conf my Security setting is at User

However, I'd like to use the smbpasswd file to authenticate users, and
if they can't be authenticated there, then use an NT server (on a
separate domain if possible)

Can this be done?

Thanks,
Paul

>From: "Paul Harrington" <paul.harrington@parthus.com>
>To: samba@lists.samba.org
>Organization: Parthus
>Subject: [Samba] Re: samba digest, Vol 1 #1039 - 15 msgs
>Date: 25 Mar 2002 15:13:38 +0000
>
>Hi All,
>
>Is there anyway to have multiple password authorisation servers?
>
>In my smb.conf my Security setting is at User
>
>However, I'd like to use the smbpasswd file to authenticate users, and
>if they can't be authenticated there, then use an NT server (on a
>separate domain if possible)
I don't know that this can be done (although I'm guessing it
wouldn't
be too hard to hack thesource code if you were determined).

However the opposite _can_ be done under certain circumstances, where
Samba authenticates against NT, and then falls back to it's local
smbpasswd file.  This is very thinly documented.  Have a good rummage
around smb.conf(5) and the various authentication docos.



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