[Samba] question concerning ldapsam:editposix and winbind
Andrew Richey
ar2748 at columbia.edu
Wed Jan 16 16:12:18 GMT 2008
Well, it looks like I would have to use pam_ldap and nss_ldap to make
this work. Or so I think... Wondering if all the Linux distros require
these too, to authenticate off of ldap.
Andrew Richey wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I've gotten my samba + openldap running quite well, minus one problem
> (that I know about). I've read over plenty of documentation, the
> official and other wiki's and such. I believe I have winbind working
> correctly, so I assume I won't have to use external scripts to add
> groups/users/etc..
>
> But isn't there something one must do in order for their OS (in my
> case FreeBSD 6.2) to use my ldap server instead of /etc/passwd and
> /etc/group files? I'm unable to change the Administrator users
> password because I have no Unix account for it, and I assume it's
> looking for that in /etc/passwd. On the same token, I can add another
> user who already exists in my /etc/password (the local user I added
> during the installation of FreeBSD). And it shows up sucsessfully in
> my ldap server.
>
> At first I was thinking that the ...
>
> ldapsam:trusted= yes
> ldapsam:editposix= yes
>
> ..handled this issue, via winbind. But that might be a
> misunderstanding on my part. Anyone have any ideas?
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