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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