On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 23:31 +0530, Sadique Puthen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am trying to figure out how to configure Samba to use Kerberos for > > authentication. I have found many how-tos and many posts on integrating > > Samba with AD. This is not what I need to do. I want to eliminate AD. I > > have seen several posts by others who want to do the same thing, but they > > are either answered with something about AD or not at all. Is there a way > > to make Samba just use plain Kerberos for authentication? > > > > What you mean by plain kerberos for authentication? You can use pam_krb5 > for kerberos authentication and there is no need to use samba in any way > for this to work. If I have understood ur question wrongly, please > correct me.
To use pam_krb5 you must be running plaintext passwords over the network, which as well as being insecure, is also buggy, due to be an almost completely untested code-path on the clients. Just don't do it... Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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