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Re: Authentication With Samba

From: Frank Gruman <fgatwork_at_verizon.net>
Date: 2005-06-13 18:42:00 CEST

I'd have to say that yes, it is very possible, and it was relatively
easy, but my authentication times are very slow (10-20 seconds). I've
run ethereal scans, and it seems that there are Kerberos issues floating
back and forth on the first and secod handshakes. But then they work
out. Strange, but it happened...

Anyway - that was when I did Apache+Samba + Winbind. Have now got
Apache + LDAP running, and that rocks!

So - make sure you get EVERYTHING right before you move into
production. I had a couple of very unhappy developers (read -> whiney)
who didn't like to wait that long for authentication. They started to
revolt and claim they'd rather work on VSS.

Regards,
Frank

Brad wrote:

> Tryst,
> Yes and its far easier than it sounds. The only issue I have is
> that users have to enter in the fully qualified domain user name such
> as "DOMAIN\USER". That depends on your domain scoping though. But it
> works fine other than that. I have the authentication hooked up
> through PAM. Apache can authenticate with PAM through mod_auth_pam.
>
> Get your system authenticating first:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Adding_a_Samba_Server_into_an_existing_AD_Domain
>
> And then use mod_auth_pam to get apache authenticating. Basically,
> just don't specify a password file.
>
>
> Brad
>
>
> On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 14:38 +0100, Hughes, Trystan wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I am about to roll out Subversion across my company and have just realised that the company users use SAMBA (http://us1.samba.org/samba/) for its login/authentication process.
>>
>>This isn;t exactly Windows domain authentication, so was wondering if I would be able to let Subversion use Apache to pickup the users SAMBA login credentials so that they can automatically login (like Windows Domain Authentication works).
>>
>>Is this at all possible?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Tryst
>>
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