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NAME

6       auth_smb - nnrpd Samba authenticator
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SYNOPSIS

9       auth_smb server [backup_server] domain
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DESCRIPTION

12       This program does authentication for nnrpd against an SMB server.  It
13       passes the received username and password to server for validation in
14       the specified SMB domain.  A backup server may optionally be supplied;
15       if it is missing, only server is used.
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17       If authentication is successful, the original username is returned as
18       the authentication identity.  Brief errors, including incorrect pass‐
19       word and failure contacting the server, are logged.
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EXAMPLE

22       The following readers.conf(5) fragment grants access to users who can
23       authenticate against an SMB server:
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25           auth windows {
26               auth: "auth_smb pdc.example.com bdc.example.com USERS"
27               default-domain: "users.example.com"
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30           access internal {
31               users: "*@users.example.com"
32               newsgroups: example.*
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35       Access is granted to the example.* groups after successful authentica‐
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BUGS

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

43       Originally written October 2000 by Krischan Jodies
44       <krischan@jodies.cx>, based heavily on pam_smb v1.1.6 by David Airlie
45       <airlied@samba.org>.  This documentation was written by Jeffrey M.
46       Vinocur <jeff@litech.org>.
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48       $Id: auth_smb.8 5989 2002-12-12 23:07:49Z vinocur $
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SEE ALSO

51       nnrpd(8), readers.conf(5)
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55INN 2.4.0                         2002-12-12                       AUTH_SMB(8)