From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 16 1:14:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3668037B405 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 01:14:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0249.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.249] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16c0vG-0007Mt-00; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 01:14:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3C6E22E3.CB62ABAA@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 01:14:11 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why isn't PAM_smb available for FreeBSD? References: <20020216035005.41685.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiten Pandya wrote: > According to the pam_smb webpage, it states that it works cleanly > with FreeBSD 3.x onwards, so I will have to try it out anyway. BTW, > what is NSS? Network Security Services; supposedly it's required, according to the web page where you grab pam_smb from, but that could just be because of the WINS name services. I don't run a large enough Windows network to see the problem (I don't run a WINS server at all, nor a domain controller/ master browser). FWIW, I was under the impression that it was needed to find the domain controller to find out where to get the SMB passwords validated. There are actually better Samba people on these lists; I personally would have asked in -questions. There appear to be FreeBSD-stable ports for both pam_smb and nss, FWIW, if you are willing to run -stable. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message