Winbindd-to-Passwd/Group Conversion Script

[William M. Grim]

Hey there!

I created a script that takes information from an NT domain using two 
calls from wbinfo and creates flat files out of them, much like 
/etc/passwd and /etc/group.  The good thing about this is that they can 
then be passed to /var/yp and used for creating maps in a NIS 
environment.  Other possibilities are possible as well, such as creating 
LDIF files out of the flat files or something.

Anyway, this is what I gave the Windows admin so that he could 
synchronize our Unix systems immediately against the NT domain when he 
added new users.  We use ssh keys to pass the files to the NIS server 
over scp and then use ssh to execute a remote command to sync the NIS 
with the new files.

Using this method, we no longer pull information from NT domains for 
sync'ing our NIS servers/clients.  We now have a push method that is 
immediate and effective.

I thought giving this to samba.org would be beneficial to more people 
than just me.  It'd be great to see this added as a tool to the samba suite.

Thanks for your time.

PS: The only docs I created are in the comment at the top of the file 
and in the usage() subroutine whenever you run the script without enough 
parameters.  It assumes that you already have winbindd setup and 
properly connected to a domain.

-- 
William Michael Grim
Student, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Unix Network Administrator, SIUE, Computer Science dept.
Phone: (217) 341-6552
Email: wgrim at siue.edu

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