On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 02:23:05PM +0000, J Xu wrote: > Hi, > > Back to a while ago, someone mentioned about taking pGINA code to samba, so > samba can work against LDAP authentication, but instead of using the > sambaNTPassword and sambaLMPassword, this way samba can use the userPassword > field directly. > > This sounds very promissing because we can then just use one set of > passwords. It may be not usable in a domain enviroment where machine accounts > and other complex stuff are difficult to hand. But it is perfectly okey for a > single linux machine in a workgroup mode. It can even provides user > authentication to other Windows box with pGINA installed and configured. > > Here is the original thread discussed about this: > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-March/101660.html > > > I am wondering where the samba team currently stand for this issue? Or is > there anyone else interterested in this?
We're always interested in clean, non obtrusive patches that increase functionality. Having said that I don't think we'd write the patches for pGINA ourselves. I'm happy to look at any patches that get sent in though. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
