NT Users in LINUX

Dave J. Andruczyk dave at www.buffalostate.edu
Mon Jun 7 12:33:13 GMT 1999


> I used the DCL emulator on Windows NT (www.advsyscon.com)  to write a DCL
> script that fetched all user accounts, approx 3500 names, from our PDC.
> These were saved in a text file that I copied to Linux. On Linux, I wrote a
> shell script that extracted all users, created accounts, home directories
> etc and alises for sendmail. When done, I installed PAM_SMB and configured
> the mail server to be a domain member with validation of user logins against
> the NT PDC. This way, all password changes on the NT will automatically be
> used by the Linux clients. The key was to set a "*" as password in
> /etc/passwd.
> 
> If anyone is interested in sharing the scripts, I can post them here. They
> are not too compex or large.


I'm interested in them.  Maybe they could be added to the "examples"
section of the samba tree, for ALL future users to look-at/use...

Dave J. Andruczyk
Instructional Support Associate
Department of Technology     
Buffalo State College





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