samba - Jan 2003 - winbind withoutt PAM

As I understood from Samba documentation winbind can run without PAM 
installed; PAM is needed only if I need interactive login in the Unix 
box of NT domain users. Am I correct?

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 bgforum2002@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> As I understood from Samba documentation winbind can run without PAM
> installed; PAM is needed only if I need interactive login in the Unix
> box of NT domain users. Am I correct?
Correct, but you do need NSS.

Kind regards,
Tim Verhoeven

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 bgforum2002@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> As I understood from Samba documentation winbind can run without PAM 
> installed; PAM is needed only if I need interactive login in the Unix 
> box of NT domain users. Am I correct?
Yes.  Pam is optional but the NSS library is required.



cheers, jerry
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