Security = share to allow samba to authenticate against the local passwd files correct? -- Jas
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 12:10:30PM -0600, Jason Gerfen wrote:> Security = share to allow samba to authenticate against the local passwd > files correct?You probably mean 'encrypt passwords = no'. Volker -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20060531/19099f3f/attachment.bin
> Security = share to allow samba to authenticate against the local passwd > files correct?AFAIK, SAMBA can't authenticate against local /etc/passwd, since SAMBA needs the LM or NTLM hashes of the password which, of course, are not stored in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. Usually, UNIX passwords are hashed with MD5, or encrypted with Blowfish, then stored into /etc/shadow, but no LM or NTLM hashes are calculated and stored in that file You must use a backend that supports storing LM and NTLM hashes, such as ldapsam or tdb.