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diff --git a/source/pam_smbpass/README b/source/pam_smbpass/README deleted file mode 100644 index 6f50ce4d2c0..00000000000 --- a/source/pam_smbpass/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@ -25 Mar 2001 - -pam_smbpass is a PAM module which can be used on conforming systems to -keep the smbpasswd (Samba password) database in sync with the unix -password file. PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is an API supported -under some Unices, such as Solaris, HPUX and Linux, that provides a -generic interface to authentication mechanisms. - -For more information on PAM, see http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ - -This module authenticates a local smbpasswd user database. If you require -support for authenticating against a remote SMB server, or if you're -concerned about the presence of suid root binaries on your system, it is -recommended that you use one of the other two following modules - - pam_smb - http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_smb/ - authenticates against any remote SMB server - - pam_ntdom - ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/pam_ntdom/ - authenticates against an NT or Samba domain controller - -Options recognized by this module are as follows: - - debug - log more debugging info - audit - like debug, but also logs unknown usernames - use_first_pass - don't prompt the user for passwords; - take them from PAM_ items instead - try_first_pass - try to get the password from a previous - PAM module, fall back to prompting the user - use_authtok - like try_first_pass, but *fail* if the new - PAM_AUTHTOK has not been previously set. - (intended for stacking password modules only) - not_set_pass - don't make passwords used by this module - available to other modules. - nodelay - don't insert ~1 second delays on authentication - failure. - nullok - null passwords are allowed. - nonull - null passwords are not allowed. Used to - override the Samba configuration. - migrate - only meaningful in an "auth" context; - used to update smbpasswd file with a - password used for successful authentication. - smbconf=<file> - specify an alternate path to the smb.conf - file. - -See the samples/ directory for example PAM configurations using this -module. - -Thanks go to the following people: - -* Andrew Morgan <morgan@transmeta.com>, for providing the Linux-PAM -framework, without which none of this would have happened - -* Christian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> and Andrew Morgan again, for the -pam_pwdb module upon which pam_smbpass was originally based - -* Luke Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net> for being receptive to the idea, -and for the occasional good-natured complaint about the project's status -that keep me working on it :) - -* and of course, all the other members of the Samba team -<samba-bugs@samba.org>, for creating a great product and for giving this -project a purpose - ---------------------- -Stephen Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> |