Hello I have a (OpenSuSE 11.2) linux server that uses our organization LDAP to authenticate users.
ssh logins work fine. I have installed a samba server on this server machine and wish to use the same authentication mechanism for Samba clients. I do not have any access to the LDAP server (it runs on windows, I think) and it is against our organization's IT policy to allow saving the LDAP admin password on client machines. I have plenty of Howtos about integrating samba with Open LDAP, but they all require saving the admin password in smbpasswd. Not an option at all here. Our IT people installed some kind of a binary module on the linux machine to allow it to authenticate ssh users but that is the extent to which they are willing to go. Can I somehow ask samba to forward all authentications to the server pam configuration (without explicitly specifying the passdb backend) ? That method will most likely work for us because the pam authentication mechanism works perfectly. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba