[Samba] Re: Winbind/PAM Question

2004-08-18 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Robert Balbir-Brott wrote: Hi All, From the Official Samba-3 HOWTO, section 24.1: Winbind - The pam_winbind.so module allows Samba to obtain authentication from any MS Windows Domain Controller. It can just as easily be used to authenticate users for access to any PAM-enabled application. I

Re: [Samba] Re: Winbind/PAM Question

2004-08-18 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: | Winbindd is not for SAMBA. It's for things like login, | sshd - this way they can let Windows domain users in. Not entirely correct. pam_winbind.so is for unix services like sshd. smbd itself can ask winbindd directly

Re: [Samba] Re: Winbind/PAM Question

2004-08-18 Thread Raphael RIGNIER
Le mer 18/08/2004 à 15:47, Gerald (Jerry) Carter a écrit : If you don't like winbindd, you could use NIS (from Windows SFU) or nss_ldap. Advantage : UID GID and other UNIX attributes are stored directly in AD. What's the best? Raphael -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [Samba] Re: Winbind/PAM Question

2004-08-18 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 00:32, Raphael RIGNIER wrote: Le mer 18/08/2004 15:47, Gerald (Jerry) Carter a crit : If you don't like winbindd, you could use NIS (from Windows SFU) or nss_ldap. Advantage : UID GID and other UNIX attributes are stored directly in AD. What's the best? Or you