[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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