HP CIFS Client A.02.02 Administrator's Guide

PAM NTLM
PAM NTLM
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PAM NTLM
This section provides a list of PAM NTLM features and a description of
the User Map File.
PAM NTLM Features
• PAM NTLM supports authentication and password management.
• PAM NTLM uses a subset of the Samba smb.conf file as its
configuration file. See the PAM NTLM Post-installation Instructions
below for further information.
• PAM NTLM supports username mapping to map a local UNIX user
name to a remote CIFS domain user name to use for authentication.
See the PAM NTLM Configuration section for more detailed
information.
• Successful user/password authentications are cached for use by the
CIFS client.
• Login authentication to CIFS Servers using NTLM encrypted
passwords.
• Updating CIFS user passwords on the Primary Domain Controller
(PDC) using the HP-UX passwd(1) command.
Refer to Chapter 2 for installation steps.
User Map File
PAM NTLM supports a user map file that maps UNIX user names to
CIFS domain user names before authentication by the CIFS server. PAM
NTLM will search the user map file for the UNIX user name. If found,
the mapped CIFS domain user name will be used to authenticate the
user on the CIFS server. You must enter the correct password for the
mapped NT user in order to be authenticated.
If you configure password(1M) to use PAM NTLM, then the password of
the mapped CIFS domain user will be changed on the CIFS domain.