smbpasswd and NIS

[Kevin Colby]

Forgive me if I've missed something,
but I thought that NIS-slave+PDC was
impossible due to NIS-slave password changes
requiring the plaintext old password.

If it weren't for that, they would work.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc at grainsystems.com


Lisa Becktold {CADIG STAFF} wrote:
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> From: "Lisa Becktold {CADIG STAFF}" <lisa at usna.navy.MIL>
> To: samba_ntdom at samba.org
> cc: lisa at usna.navy.MIL
> Subject: smbpasswd and NIS
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:32:27 -0400
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> Hi:
> 
> Is anyone using NIS to distribute a common smbpasswd table
> to several UNIX/samba servers?
> 
> I have two Samba servers, each acting as PDC of its own
> domain.  One is set up as an NIS master and the other an
> NIS slave.  They are successfully using the same /etc/passwd
> table.
> 
> I know machine accounts in smbpasswd cannot be shared across
> domains.  But would it be possible to define a basic table
> on each Samba PDC that listed only the machine accounts, and
> then access the NIS smbpasswd table for users?
> 
> Seems to me this would work, since Samba happily uses an NIS
> passwd table.  BUT - could you change your smbpasswd on the
> server that was an NIS slave?  Can the binary smbpasswd
> handle this?
> 
> Or can you only change your smbpasswd on the NIS master OR
> if the smbpasswd table is local to the machine and is not
> an NIS copy?
> 
> Thanks for any insights you can offer...I'd experiment with htis
> but classes are in session.
> 
> Lisa
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