samba - Mar 2008 - Samba + Kerberos ONLY NO AD

Hello All,

I am trying to figure out how to configure Samba to use Kerberos for 
authentication. I have found many how-tos and many posts on integrating 
Samba with AD. This is not what I need to do. I want to eliminate AD. I 
have seen several posts by others who want to do the same thing, but they 
are either answered with something about AD or not at all. Is there a way 
to make Samba just use plain Kerberos for authentication?

Thanks,
-G

gerryw@compvia.com wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to figure out how to configure Samba to use Kerberos for 
> authentication. I have found many how-tos and many posts on integrating 
> Samba with AD. This is not what I need to do. I want to eliminate AD. I 
> have seen several posts by others who want to do the same thing, but they 
> are either answered with something about AD or not at all. Is there a way 
> to make Samba just use plain Kerberos for authentication?
>   
What you mean by plain kerberos for authentication? You can use pam_krb5 
for kerberos authentication and there is no need to use samba in any way 
for this to work. If I have understood ur question wrongly, please 
correct me.

--Sadique
> Thanks,
> -G 
>
>
>
>
>  
>

Hi,

What I mean by plain kerberos is the ability to use kerberos as an 
authentication mechanism to samba instead of smbpasswd. So... when a 
particular user tries to map a samba share, samba would use kerberos to 
authenticate the user. Samba would be playing the role of a typical 
kerberized application in this case.

Thanks,
-G






 



Sadique Puthen <sputhenp@redhat.com> 
03/09/2008 01:01 PM

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Re: [Samba] Samba + Kerberos ONLY NO AD






gerryw@compvia.com wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am trying to figure out how to configure Samba to use Kerberos for 
> authentication. I have found many how-tos and many posts on integrating 
> Samba with AD. This is not what I need to do. I want to eliminate AD. I 
> have seen several posts by others who want to do the same thing, but 
they 
> are either answered with something about AD or not at all. Is there a 
way 
> to make Samba just use plain Kerberos for authentication?
> 
What you mean by plain kerberos for authentication? You can use pam_krb5 
for kerberos authentication and there is no need to use samba in any way 
for this to work. If I have understood ur question wrongly, please 
correct me.

--Sadique
> Thanks,
> -G 
>
>
>
>
> 
>