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authorJohn Terpstra <jht@samba.org>2005-08-25 16:49:40 +0000
committerGerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org>2008-04-23 08:47:06 -0500
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@@ -4,25 +4,30 @@
basic="1" advanced="1" wizard="1" developer="1"
xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
<description>
+
<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 <smbconfoption name="security"/>. 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>
+ 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 <smbconfoption name="security"/>.
+ 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
+ <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),
+ <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>
+ remote DC directly from smbd; deprecated in favour of winbind method).
+ </para>
+
</description>
<value type="default"/>
<value type="example">guest sam winbind</value>