Hi Gaiseric, I tried w/o success in configuring Samba + PAM last night.
Do you know now of any documentation that would help? - aurf On May 24, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Gaiseric Vandal wrote: > Presumably with the PGINA/LDAP solution, the has method is something > unix-compatible (e.g. unix crypt+md5, or SSHA) that is hard to break > with a password cracking program? Are the LDAP transmissions done in > the clear? If so, you could sniff the traffic and capture the > passwords. (You may not consider this ethical.) Either way, if you > had a database of plain text passwords you could then create the NTLM > passwords for each user. > > You could try configuring samba to use permit plain text passwords for > authentication. I think (but not sure) that could then configure samba > to use pam authentication (the same way a unix login would.) But you > would then need to configure all the Windows PC's to support plain text > passwords. > > > > > > > > > On 05/24/12 16:25, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am using OpenLDAP and over have ~800 users in its DB. >> >> I would like to simply use Samba as a file server, no PDC. >> >> I have been able to export my LDAP DB to a file containing hashes of users >> passwords. >> >> Is there a way I can import this file to smbpasswd or other file that Samba >> understands so that my 800 some odd users won't have to re register there >> passwords? >> >> I would really love to avoid having 800 annoyed users retyping there >> passwords for accessing shares. >> >> I have them currently authenticating on Windows via an LDAP client (pGina). >> >> - aurf > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba