Accounts for Samba and Linux
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at samba.org
Thu Jan 20 16:34:44 GMT 2000
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jens Wiesecke wrote:
> 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
true.
> and this would open
> up some security holes in the NT-domain.
bullshit.
> Is it true that every Samba-user needs an Linux-account ?
yes.
> 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).
you answered your own question :) i'm sure that there are other people on
the list who may have additional security suggestions for you. polite
ones, please.
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