[Samba] authentication via smbpasswd or tdbsam

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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David Bear wrote:
| the comments in smb.conf confused me regarding
| smbpasswd and tdbsam.
|
| If I store user accounts in tdbsam, can I no longer
| use unix password sync?

As a general rule all passdb backends should be equivalent
with one exception.  storage backends that support a richer
set of per user attributes allow setting of certain
smb.conf options on a per user basis.  e.g. logon scripts.
Other than than, external Samba behavior should not change.






cheers, jerry
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