On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Michael Beddow wrote:
One thing you will need to do is force the Windows stations to use plain text passwords. See, for example, all the *_PlainPassword.reg files in the docs/ directory of the Samba documentation (probably in /usr/share/doc/samba-VERSION/docs). Not really. Winbind uses (and unless I missed something last time I looked, requires) encrypted passwords on the wire.
I should have made it clearer: you will need to use plain text passwords if you want Samba to authenticate users in the "normal" Linux way (via PAM).
And if you actually don't mind unencrypted passwords (though I certainly would)
AFAIK and FWIW, the "encrypted" passwords that Windows uses are effectively plain-text anyway. If you have an encrypted password then, with a little hacking of the SMB client, you can use the encrypted password without ever needing to know the plain-text password. Disclaimer: my knowledge on this may be out of date or inaccurate. Personally, I prefer to use strong schemes such as Kerberos or SSH for authentication.
But why do you want to make Linux authentication primary in this way?
Why not? Michael