Through the use of Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) and the name service switcher (NSSWITCH), which maintains the UNIX-user database) the source of authentication may reside on another server. We would be inclined to call this the authentication server. This means that the Samba server may use the local UNIX/Linux system password database (/etc/passwd or /etc/shadow), may use a local smbpasswd file, or may use an LDAP backend, or even via PAM and Winbind another CIFS/SMB server for authentication.
So according to this we can use /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow for authentication. Am I wrong in that?
Ganesh
Jason C. Waters wrote:
I don't think you can. I think the only way you can get rid of smbpasswd would be using ldap, pam_ldap and nss_ldap. I think...
How can i configure samba to use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow for the samba passwords? I dont want to use smbpasswd for samba and would like it to just get its passwords from unix OS.
Im running solaris8 and samba 3.
thanks!
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