NT Server / Linux

[Andrew Chung]

Hi Mike

Thanks for your reply

I am really looking for something that will give me the whole
list, so I can have it in the username:passwd format for the
/etc/shadow file

Cheers
Andrew



At 10:55  1/09/99 -0700, Mike Oswell wrote:
>
>Do you want all services on the Linux box to authenticate against the PDC?
>
>If so, then I seem to remember seeing a PAM module on the samba ftp site a
>while back which allowed you to authenticate logons to a Linux box against
>your PDC. You may want to dig around for that, though I honestly don't
>remember what it was called anymore.
>
>-----
>Michael Oswell
>Xcert International Inc.
>
>On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Andrew Chung wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I'm not sure if Samba can do what I need for password synchronisation,
>> but I'll give it a go - could anybody please give me any ideas?
>> 
>> I have an NT Server that has about 900 accounts
>> and also a redhat linux server with 80 accounts. The linux server is
>> the mail server and also proxy server with authentication.
>> 
>> Is there any way we can use samba to get linux to verify the password
>> from the NT server, ie make our linux server read passwords from
>> a PDC
>> 
>> Basically, the passwords should go into /etc/shadow, as qpopper
>> uses it, and squid's authentication package reads off /etc/shadow
>> in the format of username:password
>> 
>> Regards
>> Andrew Chung
>> 
>> 
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>
>

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