Any way for ntlm_auth + winbind to not use ms-chap?

[Mike Ely]

I'd like to use some other auth mechanism to pass the user/pass 
combination to the radius server and have it test there without having 
to go through the MS-CHAP challenge-response rigmorale. Main reason 
being getting Perl on the NAS side to manage all the MS-CHAP stuff 
appears to be a new problem to solve, somehow.

How can this be done, and why shouldn't it be?

Thanks,
Mike