Michael Thrift wrote:
I am not authenticating domain users, or windows users, and I don't want to use smbpasswd. Is there some way to force samba to authenticate against pam, and only pam? My goal is to not add an administrative load whatsoever.

The last goal is not one you can achieve.

If you want to authenticate against PAM, you have to set "encrypt passwords = no". Note, however, that the man page says:

  The use of plain text passwords is NOT advised as support
  for this feature is no longer maintained in Microsoft Win-
  dows products. If you want to use plain text passwords you
  must set this parameter to no.

Now, if you choose to set that option, you have to modify all of your clients, by importing the appropriate "PlainPassword.reg" file from the samba distribution.

So, basically, you have a choice between modifying how you manage and change passwords, so that you can support a secure login method for SMB, or changing the configuration of all of your windows clients considerably degrading security.
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