----- Original Message -----
From: "Federico Sevilla III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:26 AM
Subject: [plug] Samba authenticating via PAM (was [ph-linux-newbie] file
server)
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 at 01:51, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> > me thinks its best if you hack it to use pam instead (i think it does
> > already...) That way it'll be easy to put an alternative
> > authentication scheme into samba..
>
> I agree. But ... how? I volunteered for Samba, but honestly, I haven't
> found anything on making Samba use PAM for authentication. I know of the
> pam_smb module, but that's for PAM to authenticate via a Samba server.
>
> I'll be doing research and will keep the list posted, but maybe someone
> has already done research and can share some URLs?
There is a PAM application developer's guide. I toyed around with PAM
authentication into some C apps some time ago.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam_appl.html
I have not played with Samba much. If Samba doesn't already authenticate via
PAM, it should be trivial to modify the programs to do so.
Brian
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