HP CIFS Client A.02.02.03 Administrator's Guide

Figure 1 CIFS Paradigm
PAM NTLM
The HP-UX PAM subsystem gives system administrators the flexibility of choosing any authentication
service available on the system to perform authentication. The framework also allows new
authentication service modules to be plugged in and made available without modifying the
applications.
The PAM framework, libpam, consists of an interface library and multiple authentication service
modules. The authentication service modules are a set of dynamically loadable objects invoked
by the PAM API to provide a particular type of user authentication.
NT LAN Manager (NTLM) is the protocol by which CIFS clients are authenticated by CIFS servers.
PAM NTLM is a PAM module that implements the NTLM protocol. It enables users logging in to
an HP-UX system to have access to CIFS-mounted file systems without having to use the cifslogin
command.
HP CIFS Client Description
HP CIFS Client implements the CIFS protocols on HP-UX so that HP-UX users may mount shares
from CIFS servers as UNIX file systems.
HP CIFS Client Features
Following is a list of the HP CIFS Client major features:
• CIFS UNIX Extensions
• NTLM PAM Integration
• Kerberos Authentication, Integration with System Kerberos Cache
• ONC AutoFS 2.3 Support
• Support for Internationalized Clients
• NTLM, NTLMv2 Password Encryption
• Packet Signing
• NetBIOS Name Services, WINS, and DNS Support
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