/etc/passwd - Domain Controller Synchronization

[Charlie Brady]

On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Jorge Silva (Jorge Gomes da Silva) wrote:

> I'm currently working on a project for a client that relies on Unix machines
> for their main applications. Access to Unix applications is done through
> terminal emulation (vt 100) on Windows PCs.
> 
> We are implementing a Windows NT network for file an print sharing and to
> support SMS. One of the goals of the project is to achieve an authentication
> scheme where username and password are exactly the same on Unix and NT.

You will achieve your objective most easily by ditching Windows NT in
favour of Linux+samba. It does file and print sharing very well. You will
then only have one password system to worry about.

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