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NAME
       auth_smb - nnrpd Samba authenticator

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)

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