LDAP and /etc/passwd accounts
Jochen Schneider
jochen.schneider at mediaways.net
Mon Oct 29 02:41:29 GMT 2001
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I've just configured SAMBA to use the accounts in the LDAP database
> (thanks to Ignacio Coupeau for his documents) and seems to work fine.
>
> But I only have a question. It seems that the user account must also
> be in the /etc/passwd file for this to work. What I'm asking is if this
> is going to change when I configure my system to use PAM and LDAP using
> nsswitch, or if this is still something that must be worked on by the
> Samba team.
Nsswitch with LDAP works just fine an keeps Your /etc/passwd short.
Nothing to worry about.
> José Carlos García Sogo
> jsogo at debian.org
>
Have fun,
Jochen
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