Hello,
I was wondering if there is an easy way to authenticate users through
ldap, or pam (which uses ldap). In our current setup samba uses tdbsam.
I would like users to be authenticated to our existing ldap server
(slapd on debian etch). So that if the user has been authenticated
successfully (s)he can access the directories as configured in smb.conf
(/home/username, /public etc.) with the file and group permissions the
person has when for example using a shell.
Using ldapsam with an existing ldap setup is quite a pain and I'd rather
avoid it (I have tried but yet did not succeed). I tried using pam,
which did work, but only for plaintext passwords. Windows by default
doesn't allow plaintext, so this would lock nout windows users unless
windows is changed to use plaintext.
There are many systems which can use ldap for authentication by just
providing a server and distinguished name (dc=...) and such. I was
hoping samba would be able to do just that, leaving out any other fancy
things.
Thank you,
Jeroen
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