From a967ddf3de101e2010695421b6d5373dbc6909f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bartlett Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:36:44 +0000 Subject: Address some inaccracies (such as BDC solutions that might have worked, but Samba never got the code to support), clarify some things that pedents have raised on the lists/in bugs, and explain about the 'ldap replication sleep' hack. Andrew Bartlett (This used to be commit dd9bd7b42e6818697f7e2dd913f6480406d24e60) --- docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/Passdb.xml | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/Passdb.xml') diff --git a/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/Passdb.xml b/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/Passdb.xml index f9d4f6637a..06f34b4847 100644 --- a/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/Passdb.xml +++ b/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/Passdb.xml @@ -51,8 +51,12 @@ as follows: Plain Text - This option uses nothing but the UNIX/Linux /etc/passwd - style backend. On systems that have Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) + This isn't really a backend at all, but is + listed here for simplicity. Samba can be + configured to pass plaintext authentication + requests to the traditional UNIX/Linux + /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow + style subsystems. On systems that have Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) support, all PAM modules are supported. The behavior is just as it was with Samba-2.2.x, and the protocol limitations imposed by MS Windows clients apply likewise. Please refer to Technical Information for more information @@ -1718,11 +1722,6 @@ access to attrs=SambaLMPassword,SambaNTPassword for example, auth methodsguest sam. - - This is the exact opposite of the requirement for the passdb backend - option, where it must be the LAST parameter on the line. - - -- cgit