%globalentities; ]> ntlm_auth 1 ntlm_auth tool to allow external access to Winbind's NTLM authentication function ntlm_auth -d debuglevel -l logfile -s <smb config file> This tool is part of the Samba 7 suite. ntlm_auth is a helper utility that authenticates users using NT/LM authentication. It returns 0 if the users is authenticated successfully and 1 if access was denied. ntlm_auth uses winbind to access the user and authentication data for a domain. This utility is only to be used by other programs (currently squid). --helper-protocol=PROTO Operate as a stdio-based helper --username=USERNAME Specify username of user to authenticate --domain=DOMAIN Specify domain of user to authenticate --workstation=WORKSTATION Specify the workstation the user authenticated from --challenge=STRING challenge (HEX encoded) --lm-response=RESPONSE LM Response to the challenge (HEX encoded) --nt-response=RESPONSE NT or NTLMv2 Response to the challenge (HEX encoded) --password=PASSWORD User's plaintext password --request-lm-key Retreive LM session key --request-nt-key Request NT key &popt.common.samba; &stdarg.help; This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite. The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. The ntlm_auth manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.