Accounts for Samba and Linux

[Jens Wiesecke]

Hi,

I just started to build up a Samba-Server running under Linux (RH 6.1).
At the end I want to establish the Samba-Server as
BackupDomainController or PrimaryDomainContrioller of a NT 4.0 Domain.
In this context some security questions came up. They claimed that
_every_  NT-account must also have an Linux-account and this would open
up some security holes in the NT-domain. Is it true that every
Samba-user needs an Linux-account ?

Note:
I don't think that an additional Linux-Account would open extra security
problems. I would just set /dev/none as default shell (and would have no
mail-, http-, telnet-, ftp- etc. server running).

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Jens Wiesecke
Institut für Makromolekulare Chemie
AK Prof. Dr. Rehahn

Petersenstr. 22
64287 Darmstadt

E-Mail: j_wiese at hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de