[Samba] how to use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow for samba passwords?

[Ganeshram Iyer]

Actually according to the samba site 
(http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/StandAloneServer.html), 
if you scroll to the last para of the Backgroung section you have the 
following sentence:

Through the use of Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) and the name 
service switcher (NSSWITCH), which maintains the UNIX-user database) the 
source of authentication may reside on another server. We would be 
inclined to call this the authentication server. This means that the 
Samba server may use the local UNIX/Linux system password database 
(/etc/passwd or /etc/shadow), may use a local smbpasswd file, or may use 
an LDAP backend, or even via PAM and Winbind another CIFS/SMB server for 
authentication.

So according to this we can use /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow for 
authentication. Am I wrong in that?
Ganesh

Jason C. Waters wrote:

>I don't think you can.  I think the only way you can get rid of smbpasswd
>would be using ldap, pam_ldap and nss_ldap.  I think...
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>>How can i configure samba to use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow for the samba
>>passwords?
>>I dont want to use smbpasswd for samba and would like it to just get its
>>passwords from unix OS.
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>>Im running solaris8 and samba 3.
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>>thanks!
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