[Samba] Can Samba integrate with NIS?

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Howdy,

>From: Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
>To: "Galella, Anthony" <anthony.galella at intel.com>
>Cc: "'samba at lists.samba.org'" <samba at lists.samba.org>
>Subject: Re: [Samba] Can Samba integrate with NIS?
>Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 20:32:29 -0500
>
>Galella, Anthony wrote:
>
>>Is it possible to set samba to authenticate users with their NIS
>>username/password?
>>
>>Do I still have to use smbpasswd?  Is there a way to automate, so NIS users
>>will automatically have Samba access?
>>
>
>We're setting up scripts to use rsync to replicate smbpasswd to the 
>multiple hosts,
>it's described briefly in the docs that ship with Samba.


What are you doing about password changes in NIS and replicating them
into smbpasswd?

Wouldn't using 'security = server', 'paswsord server = Samba-on-NIS-master'
be more useful on your other Samba boxes? (and perhaps more secure?)


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