managing users from smbpasswd rather than /etc/passwd
Christian Barth
BARTH at cck.uni-kl.de
Fri Sep 25 14:37:33 GMT 1998
> Right now, Samba is a ``good unix citizen'', and quietly uses
> all the standard unix mechanisms for getting services. A few
> things have to be done specially (MS-format encryption, notably),
> but in general, Samba just adds to Unix: it hardly ever takes away.
>
> I'll argue **strongly** that this is a good thing: it's quite
> complex enough. I'd hate to have to remember what special deals
> it makes in order to analyze its behavior (i.e., debug its
> configuration).
That's my opinion!!
Christian
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