Re: [Q] NTLM Authentication from UNIX
From: Dave (davep@hmgcc.gov.uk)
Date: 12/02/02
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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 08:06:23 +0000 From: Dave <davep@hmgcc.gov.uk>
Nick Thurn wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Anyone successfully setup authentication to an NT Domain from UNIX?
>
> What I want to do is leverage the corporate domain for an application
> that needs to authenticate it's users for permission and logging purposes.
> The issue is that everyone in the org will have readonly access by default
> and only a very few will have write/admin access. As we already have
> everyone on NT in a single domain I want to avoid setting up an
> additional security repository other than for the extra permissions.
>
> Note that the authentication is from the server back to NT. I want to
> avoid requiring software be installed on the client machines.
>
> I know that there is a pam module in Samba that talks to NT but it
> requires a unix login and simply leverages the NT password repository.
>
> Any assistance would be much appreciated.
>
> cheers
> Nick
IIRC there's a Perl module to do this - check on www.cpan.org. Certainly
there are modules for Apache and Squid which could form the basis for a
standalone app. Also pam_smb which is part of Samba.
Dave
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