Just to complete ClaudeD explanation, Samba is a software which allows you to share network volumes with other computers (both Linux and Windows). For technical reasons, samba should keep a separate copy of the user passwords. As ClaudeD said, libpam-smbpass keeps the two copies in sync.
Just to complete ClaudeD explanation, Samba is a software which allows you to share network volumes with other computers (both Linux and Windows). For technical reasons, samba should keep a separate copy of the user passwords. As ClaudeD said, libpam-smbpass keeps the two copies in sync.