[Samba] Does samba use NSS to find users/groups ?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 22:47, Saullius Gurklys wrote:
> Hi,
>   I would like to create samba only domain and
> have centralized samba+system users
> database in LDAP (using posixaccount+sambaccont).
>   Does samba uses NSS to find users/groups info?
> I mean, can I have system with users in LDAP,
> but not in /etc/passwd?

Yes, and it works quite well, because a user's sambaAccount and
posixAccount classes can both extend the same LDAP object.  Recent
changes in Samba 3.0 actually moved to take particular advantage of
this, for performance reasons (see 'ldap trust ids' in the Samba 3.0
manpages if you are interested).

Andrew Bartlett

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