how to enable nss-wrapper in samba 4.3.9

Andreas Schneider asn at samba.org
Fri Dec 16 07:07:32 UTC 2016


On Friday, 16 December 2016 01:31:11 CET Fengwei wrote:
> Hi all,
> Thanks for your attetion to my question.I have another quetion about the
> samba.
 If a user account has got through the LDAP authentication for
> samba,samba will use the function getpwnam() to obtain user information.The
> function getpwnam() is in CNU C Library and the Name Service Switch(NSS)
> configuration file, /etc/nsswitch.conf is used by this function to
> determine the sources from which to obtain name-service information in a
> range of categories, and in what order. I set the /etc/nsswitch.conf file
> as follows: passwd:         compat ldap
>          group:          compat ldap
>          shadow:         compat ldap
> 
>          hosts:          files dns
>          networks:       files
> 
>          protocols:      db files
>          services:       db files
>          ethers:         db files
>          rpc:            db files
> 
>          netgroup:       nis
> As a result, if the user account has the same name as in LDAP,samba will get
> the user information from the local file, /etc/passwd. How can samba get
> the user information from ldap but not to change the the order of the
> services in the passwd database?

It can't. Do not use conflicting user names!



	Andreas

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