WINBIND_KRB5_LOCALAU

Section: 8 (8)
Updated: 04/07/2021
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NAME

winbind_krb5_localauth - A plugin for MIT Kerberos for mapping user accounts.

DESCRIPTION

This plugin is part of the samba(7) suite.

winbind_krb5_localauth is a plugin that permits the MIT Kerberos libraries that Kerberos principals can be validated against local user accounts.

PREREQUISITES

MIT Kerberos (at least version 1.12) is required.

The plugin queries the winbindd(8) daemon which needs to be configured and started separately.

The following sections needs to be added to the krb5.conf file.

[plugins]
        localauth = {
                module = winbind:/usr/lib64/samba/krb5/winbind_krb5_localauth.so
                enable_only = winbind
        }

VERSION

This man page is part of version 4.14.2 of the Samba suite.

AUTHOR

The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

The winbind_krb5_localauth manpage was written by Andreas Schneider.