Bug#293349: ITP: libpam-smb -- Pluggable Authentication Module authenticating from NT server
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Martin Orr <martin@martinorr.name>
Package name : libpam-smb
Version : 1.9.9+2.0.0-rc6
Upstream Author : Dave Airlie <airlied@samba.org>
URL : http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied/pam_smb/
License : GPL
Description : Pluggable Authentication Module authenticating from NT server
This is a PAM module, which can verify user passwords from Windows NT
servers. It differs from winbind in that it does not require you to have
administrative access to the NT domain in order to join it, and in that
it does not contain an NSS module to obtain user account information from
NT - only passwords.
This package is present in woody (version 1.1.6) but was removed in 2003
following maintainer inactivity, and because Steve Langasek asserted that it
was obsolete. Certainly winbind is to be preferred in most circumstances
but I at least find this package useful because I am unable to get
administrative access to the relevant NT domain.
My current package is available at
deb http://henry.methody.org/debian sid official
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.29
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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Martin Orr
Linux Administrator,
Methodist College Belfast
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