[Fwd: Re: Minor PDC feature]

[Buchan Milne]

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Subject: Re: Minor PDC feature
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 17:45:08 +0200
From: Buchan Milne <bgmilne at ing.sun.ac.za>
Organization: Centre for Automotive Engineering
To: Gerald Carter <gcarter at valinux.com>
References: <540DA5E188A2D3118996006008A0C2790306B6 at MARTE>
<39DC7E69.987EFEF3 at valinux.com>

If you mean giving file permissions/acls on the Windows NT 4 clients
based on accounts on a samba PDC, this is working on 2.0.7. We have
2.0.7 as our PDC, with very few problems (who wants to run user manager
anyway, we have ssh). Domain groups don't work of course, which is my
biggest wish for 2.2.x.

btw. On the matter of changing unix passwords from windows, why not let
people use ssh. Here our mail server is a Netware machine, so we have 2
passwords, and have to run "setpass" to change Netware's password.
What's the diff having to change a password from ssh (unless you don't
want people logging into the unix boxes).

Buchan

Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> Fabricio Bianco Abreu wrote:
> >
> > By "user level mode" I mean they can grab the
> > WinNT domain list of accounts to assign rights
> > to the shared resource.
> 
> User and group enumeration will be part of the
> PDC support code slated for 3.0.  Of course, someone
> could do a temporary hack for 2.0.7 (or 2.2.0)
> to get you through.  The underlying user/group
> mapping/enumeration code needs to some work.
> 
> CHeers, jerry
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