Hello, A friend wants to set up Samba (3.0.9-2.6-SUSE) so that users would log on using the same credentials as on the local Linux system, without a separate password database. He would like Samba to use PAM or /etc/passwd. Is it possible, and if so, how? -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
Hi ,why not use ldap it works like charme ( and would work exactlty as you like ) and its easy to setup with suse Regards Mikhail Ramendik schrieb:> Hello, > > A friend wants to set up Samba (3.0.9-2.6-SUSE) so that users would log on > using the same credentials as on the local Linux system, without a separate > password database. He would like Samba to use PAM or /etc/passwd. > > Is it possible, and if so, how? >
Mikhail Ramendik wrote:> Hello, > > A friend wants to set up Samba (3.0.9-2.6-SUSE) so that users would log on > using the same credentials as on the local Linux system, without a separate > password database. He would like Samba to use PAM or /etc/passwd. > > Is it possible, and if so, how?AFAIK no. I think it would not be possible without disabling password encryption, which would also mean he'll have to do without a lot of other things. I'm doing it the other way round, i.e. using Samba as my authentication engine and let any other service authenticate through pam_smb. Then I use nss_ldap to complete the thing. bye av.