Re: Five fundamental questions from a newbie

[Luke Howard <lukeh@PADL.COM>]

>Can you find out where you heard this from? When mentioning
>Samba I thought about it using authentication functions of
>pam_ldap. I haven´t found out anything about generic support of
>LDAP authentication. Have you?

LDAP support is in the HEAD CVS branch of SAMBA. Using pam_ldap
is insufficient because SAMBA needs to retrieve NT password hashes
and other user information in order to act as an NT domain controller,
not merely authenticate a cleartext password.

-- Luke

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Luke Howard
PADL Software Pty Ltd
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