ntlm_auth 1
ntlm_auth tool to allow external access to Winbind's NTLM authentication function
`ntlm_auth` -d debuglevel -l logfile -s <smb config file>

## DESCRIPTION

This tool is part of the Samba 7 suite.

`ntlm_auth` is a helper utility that authenticates users using NT/LM authentication. It returns 0 if the users is authenticated successfully and 1 if access was denied. ntlm_auth uses winbind to access the user and authentication data for a domain. This utility is only to be used by other programs (currently squid).

## OPTIONS

--helper-protocol=PROTO

  Operate as a stdio-based helper

--username=USERNAME

  Specify username of user to authenticate

--domain=DOMAIN

  Specify domain of user to authenticate

--workstation=WORKSTATION

  Specify the workstation the user authenticated from

--challenge=STRING

  challenge (HEX encoded)

--lm-response=RESPONSE

  LM Response to the challenge (HEX encoded)

--nt-response=RESPONSE

  NT or NTLMv2 Response to the challenge (HEX encoded)

--password=PASSWORD

  User's plaintext password

--request-lm-key

  Retreive LM session key

--request-nt-key

  Request NT key

&popt.common.samba; &stdarg.help;

## VERSION

This man page is correct for version 3.0 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 ntlm_auth manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.