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2017 Mar 26
2
Custom Authentication Plugin (passdb backend)
I'm looking to create a "passdb backend" plugin so that Samba can
authenticate with our existing custom authentication system. Though I
haven't been able to locate any documentation on this, I believe it's
possible (without modifying Samba proper) for the following reasons:
- This project exists (though isn't being maintained and doesn't work
with the current
2017 Mar 26
0
Custom Authentication Plugin (passdb backend)
...ilt a pluggable auth and passdb system, creating and
deploying custom backends has turned out to be much harder to execute
in practice than originally expected.
In particular, the auth subsystem only covers NTLM authentication, but
not password chagnes nor machine account authentication (netlogon
ServerAuthenticateX), and passdb has so many arms and lets it is quite
difficult to implement (but more practical).
Both require that you have access to the NT hash of the user's password
(MD4(utf16_le(password)).
If access to that is available, it may be more practical to present
your existing DB in something...