On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 02:50, Daniel MERC wrote:
> I am using samba as a PDC on linux. It works fine with encrypted
> passwords. But now i need use a PAM authentication and PAM requires
> plain passwords. When i use "encrypt passwords = No" in smb.conf a PAM
> is out of game. Is there any way to use a PAM authentication with samba
> as PDC ?

Not for NT or Win2k.  Only Win9X can have 'domain logons' without
encrypted passwords.

Running with plaintext passwords is a security risk, and is no longer
tested by MS.  This means that there are a number of known client bugs -
bugs that just 'go away' when you enable encrypted passwords.

(and you need to apply the registry patch).

Andrew Bartlett

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