auth_smb(8)
NAME
auth_smb - nnrpd Samba authenticator
SYNOPSIS
auth_smb server [backup_server] domain
DESCRIPTION
This program does authentication for nnrpd against an SMB server. It
passes the received username and password to server for validation in
the specified SMB domain. A backup server may optionally be supplied;
if it is missing, only server is used.
If authentication is successful, the original username is returned as
the authentication identity. Brief errors, including incorrect password and failure contacting the server, are logged.
EXAMPLE
- The following readers.conf(5) fragment grants access to users who can
authenticate against an SMB server:
- auth windows {
auth: "auth_smb pdc.example.com bdc.example.com USERS"
default-domain: "users.example.com" - }
- access internal {
users: "*@users.example.com"
newsgroups: example.* - }
- Access is granted to the example.* groups after successful authentication.
BUGS
We should link against an external SMB library rather than maintain one
within the INN source tree.
HISTORY
Originally written October 2000 by Krischan Jodies
<krischan@jodies.cx>, based heavily on pam_smb v1.1.6 by David Airlie
<airlied@samba.org>. This documentation was written by Jeffrey M.
Vinocur <jeff@litech.org>.
$Id: auth_smb.8 7880 2008-06-16 20:37:13Z iulius $