[Samba] /etc/passwd backend
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Mon Sep 30 13:57:08 MDT 2013
On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 13:46 +0000, Miroslav Kolar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to understand if it's possible to use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow like backend for LDB.
> If not, would it be possible to use samba-tool or something similar to create the new user with password hash in MD5?
>
> Is there perhaps an API to Samba4 which can be used for user management, especially creating/modifying users when password is MD5 hash?
You should instead use nss_winbind to have the system query the users
from our ldb for nsswitch. That way, we do not have two databases to
keep 'in sync'.
Andrew Bartlett
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