[Samba] PDC, NIS and password sync.

[Ilia E. Chipitsine]

> >
> >Hi.
> >
> >I have for a while been trying to get my samba 2.2.1a PDC to be a NIS master
> >and still maintain the password sync feature, without any luck.
> >Now I made something that seems to work - but I would like to get your input
> >to see if what I do is ok or it is something I should'nt do.
> >
> >1: Samba uses passwd to sync the password (not yppasswd)
> >
> >2: cron runs make in /var/yp every 15 minutes to update the NIS maps.
>
> This is probably fine.
>
> You need to make sure that you add and delete accounts from the smbpasswd
> file at the same time as you add and delete users for the passwd file
> itself.
>
> And obviously there'll be a slight lag in the NIS password being
> changed.
>
> And finally, what are you doing about users who change their password
> from a UNIX prompt?
>
> Suggestions:-
>
> Write a (2 line) script to use as the 'passwd program' that looks (sort
> of) like this:-
>
> 	passwd "$1"
> 	/var/yp/ymake passwd

as far as I understand 'passwd program' is being used for machines
accounts within PDC, or is it not ???


>
> this means that rather than having to run 'ypmake' every 15 minutes,
> it's run as soon as the user changes their password and rebuilds only
> the passwd maps.
>
> If you do this, make sure you edit the 'chat' script to include any
> output of 'ypmake' (or redirect it's output to /dev/null in the script)
>
> Apart from these, it should all be OKay.
>
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