[PLUG] limiting simultaneous logins in Samba
Cooper Stevenson
cooper at linux-enterprise.net
Wed Nov 20 00:49:35 UTC 2002
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 16:45, Dan Young wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:49, Eric Harrison wrote:
> > I found what I was looking for... by default Samba ignores the PAM account
> > and session management. Adding the following line to the globals section
> > of the smb.conf changes this behavior:
> >
> > obey pam restrictions = yes
>
> As per the samba docs:
>
> http://us6.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/smb.conf.5.html#OBEYPAMRESTRICTIONS
>
> "Note that Samba always ignores PAM for authentication in the case of
> encrypt passwords = yes . The reason is that PAM modules cannot support
> the challenge/response authentication mechanism needed in the presence
> of SMB password encryption."
>
> -Dan Young
> -Parkrose School District
>
>
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