samba - May 2002 - ldap pam and samba

hello,
    can i authenticate samba to pam and then ldap? thank you.

--David Weise
   OIT
   Rider University

"The real race is not on the hot, paved road, the torturous off-road course
or the smooth-surface velodrome. It is in the electrochemical pathways of 
your mind."--Alexi Grewal

Hello,

I haven't tried it, but hopefully soon I will (there are some problems 
with the LDAP-server (nds). I think this should work:
- compile samba with the "--with-pam" option
- install nss_ldap and pam_ldap, configure them, test them
and it should work.

I had the following testsetup and it worked:
- Client configured with nss_ldap and pam_ldap.
- OpenLDAP-Server on an other box
and I could login from the client. So the way was:

login -> pam -> pam_ldap -> LDAP-Server
and it worked.

You have the following way:
samba -> pam -> pam_ldap-> LDAP-Server
so I think, this should work.

One thing I'm not sure about:
If you want to use samba as PDC for Win2k/XP this doesn't work via pam.


Hope that helps
Peter


dweise wrote:
> hello,
>    can i authenticate samba to pam and then ldap? thank you.
>
> --David Weise
>   OIT
>   Rider University
>
> "The real race is not on the hot, paved road, the torturous off-road 
> course or the smooth-surface velodrome. It is in the electrochemical 
> pathways of your mind."--Alexi Grewal
>

Well that makes me enthusiastic. But what are the passwords in your LDAP 
plaintext?

At 10:37 PM 5/14/2002 +0200, Peter H?bschen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I haven't tried it, but hopefully soon I will (there are some problems 
>with the LDAP-server (nds). I think this should work:
>- compile samba with the "--with-pam" option
>- install nss_ldap and pam_ldap, configure them, test them
>and it should work.
>
>I had the following testsetup and it worked:
>- Client configured with nss_ldap and pam_ldap.
>- OpenLDAP-Server on an other box
>and I could login from the client. So the way was:
>
>login -> pam -> pam_ldap -> LDAP-Server
>and it worked.
>
>You have the following way:
>samba -> pam -> pam_ldap-> LDAP-Server
>so I think, this should work.
>
>One thing I'm not sure about:
>If you want to use samba as PDC for Win2k/XP this doesn't work via pam.
>
>
>Hope that helps
>Peter
>
>
>dweise wrote:
>
>>hello,
>>    can i authenticate samba to pam and then ldap? thank you.
>>
>>--David Weise
>>   OIT
>>   Rider University
>>
>>"The real race is not on the hot, paved road, the torturous
off-road
>>course or the smooth-surface velodrome. It is in the electrochemical 
>>pathways of your mind."--Alexi Grewal
>
>
--David Weise
   OIT
   Rider University

"The real race is not on the hot, paved road, the torturous off-road course
or the smooth-surface velodrome. It is in the electrochemical pathways of 
your mind."--Alexi Grewal