NT4.0 PDC and Samba help
Akira Matsuno
matsaki at statcan.ca
Wed Aug 19 17:11:44 GMT 1998
Gerald Carter wrote:
>
> Christoph Doerbeck wrote:
> >
> > I read that someone stated that you NEED local accounts in
> > /etc/passwd.
> > I don't believe this to be the case. In fact, I thought that if you
> > were to create a "username map" with an entry like "safeshare = *"
> > then all NTDOM connections authenticated through the NT server
> > would work, and have local userid "safeshare" on the samba server.
> <snip>
> > Am I way off on this? Or does this sound like a solution to the
> > stated problem?
>
> That's what I said. :) However you allow Samba to get a valid
> Unix uid will work. Either /etc/passwd entries or "username map ="
>
Regarding entering /etc/passwd users...Are there any ramifications if
you are using C2 security (shadow passwords)? Or is this not a
problem? I'm not a unix expert so, I thought I'd ask before I did
anything.
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* Akira Matsuno
* Network Administrator / Oracle DBA
* Statistics Canada
* Ottawa Ontario
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