-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/03/2010 10:25 AM, John H Terpstra wrote: > On 07/03/2010 08:50 AM, kandukuru_sur...@emc.com wrote: >> Dear JHT, >> Thanks for the quick reply.in >> http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.4.0.html . >> Samba team is recommending to use tdbsam. > > Not just recommending - it is the default now. The smbpasswd file can > not contain the information needed to fully support current MS Windows > clients. The result is the smbpasswd format storage of MS Windows > networking credentials has been obsoleted. > >> just wanted to know one thing, >> from samba 3.4 default backend has been changed to tdbsam , why for one >> of the module "pam_smbpass" in samba code is still looking for passwords >> in smbpasswd?.is there any patch for that?. > > The pam_smbpasswd module has not been updated because noone has > contributed the necessary patches. The tdbsam backend has been > available since September 2003, so my take on this is that VERY few > people use pam_smbpasswd. If more were using it, someone might by now > have done something about the lack of support for tsbsam (and ldapsam > for that matter) in the pam_smbpasswd module.
I was using it, and was somewhat disappointed to lose it when I had to switch to tdbsam, but by that time it had become much less important to share Windows and UNIX credentials on the same system. - -- - ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Sr. Systems Programmer |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |novos...@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/CST-Academic Svcs. - ADMC 450, Newark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwxe7IACgkQmb+gadEcsb5OgQCggR+d7JHCYt8Q8/S4nwIAlAtr VHoAn2HEMUP3h/8Oq6TXQe4GR9SZ/Une =YFIu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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