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authorGerald Carter <jerry@samba.org>2003-07-01 18:34:31 +0000
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update the docs wrt to the recent code changes. Can someone regenerate these in the SAMBA_3_0 tree please? Thanks. (This used to be commit ba448e6eb866d70daf5fe629c0f1c8c5afb1d312)
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@@ -6,14 +6,24 @@
<para>This option allows the administrator to chose what
authentication methods <command moreinfo="none">smbd</command> will use when authenticating
a user. This option defaults to sensible values based on <link linkend="SECURITY">
- <parameter moreinfo="none">security</parameter></link>.</para>
+ <parameter moreinfo="none">security</parameter></link>. This should be considered
+ a developer option and used only in rare circumstances. In the majority (if not all)
+ of production servers, the default setting should be adequate.</para>
<para>Each entry in the list attempts to authenticate the user in turn, until
the user authenticates. In practice only one method will ever actually
be able to complete the authentication.
</para>
+ <para>Possible options include <constant>guest</constant> (anonymous access),
+ <constant>sam</constant> (lookups in local list of accounts based on netbios
+ name or domain name), <constant>winbind</constant> (relay authentication requests
+ for remote users through winbindd), <constant>ntdomain</constant> (pre-winbindd
+ method of authentication for remote domain users; deprecated in favour of winbind method),
+ <constant>trustdomain</constant> (authenticate trusted users by contacting the
+ remote DC directly from smbd; deprecated in favour of winbind method).</para>
+
<para>Default: <command moreinfo="none">auth methods = &lt;empty string&gt;</command></para>
- <para>Example: <command moreinfo="none">auth methods = guest sam ntdomain</command></para>
+ <para>Example: <command moreinfo="none">auth methods = guest sam winbind</command></para>
</listitem>
</samba:parameter>