On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 21:00, Edward Marczak wrote: > > ...and a third: sites with mixed clients. Ever try to serve people who hop > around between Macs *and* PCs? While possible, it's not pretty. However, > with NetWare or 2000, both clients share the same password to authenticate > and groups work smoothly for authorization. > > Which makes me ask: Have I just missed a way to have samba authenticate > through Pam instead of using its own database?
I don't believe that's possible if the Windows clients are encrypting their passwords. If you turn off password encryption on all of your clients, passwords are sent to the server instead of hashes, and samba will use PAM. (Which is not to say that it's a good idea :)
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