SYNOPSIS

       auth_smb server [backup_server] domain

DESCRIPTION

       This program does authentication for nnrpd against an SMB server.  It
       passes the received username and password to server for validation in
       the specified SMB domain.  A backup server may optionally be supplied;
       if it is missing, only server is used.

       If authentication is successful, the original username is returned as
       the authentication identity.  Brief errors, including incorrect pass-
       word and failure contacting the server, are logged.

EXAMPLE

       The following readers.conf(5) fragment grants access to users who can
       authenticate against an SMB server:

           auth windows {
               auth: "auth_smb pdc.example.com bdc.example.com USERS"
               default-domain: "users.example.com"
           }

           access internal {
               users: "*@users.example.com"
               newsgroups: example.*
           }

       Access is granted to the example.* groups after successful authentica-
       tion.

BUGS

       We should link against an external SMB library rather than maintain one
       within the INN source tree.

HISTORY

       Originally written October 2000 by Krischan Jodies
       <krischan@jodies.cx>, based heavily on pam_smb v1.1.6 by David Airlie
       <airlied@samba.org>.  This documentation was written by Jeffrey M.
       Vinocur <jeff@litech.org>.

       $Id: auth_smb.8 5989 2002-12-12 23:07:49Z vinocur $

SEE ALSO

       nnrpd(8), readers.conf(5)



INN 2.4.0                         2002-12-12                       AUTH_SMB(8)