smbpasswd doubt
Peter Samuelson
peter at cadcamlab.org
Thu Aug 24 05:28:04 GMT 2000
[James Curry]
> But I'm 99% certain that the smbpasswd file is still necessary on
> your Samba server if you are using encrypted passwords (which most
> people do.)
Nope, it's the other 1%. (: For `security=server' and `security=domain'
you need Unix accounts but you do *not* need a smbpasswd file. I've
done without one for years....
> I don't know that these replace smbpasswd. I don't think I'd
> classify the smbpasswd file as a mapping mechanism to unix accounts.
Right, it's not. `username map' is, as you said. The smbpasswd file
is just a way of keeping extra information about an account that isn't
in the system password file -- like the NT-encrypted password and the
user attributes.
Peter
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