[Samba] Does samba use NSS to find users/groups ?
Saullius Gurklys
sagu at isl.vtu.lt
Sun Nov 10 13:08:01 GMT 2002
Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 22:47, Saullius Gurklys wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I would like to create samba only domain and
>> have centralized samba+system users
>> database in LDAP (using posixaccount+sambaccont).
>> Does samba uses NSS to find users/groups info?
>> I mean, can I have system with users in LDAP,
>> but not in /etc/passwd?
>
> Yes, and it works quite well, because a user's sambaAccount and
> posixAccount classes can both extend the same LDAP object. Recent
> changes in Samba 3.0 actually moved to take particular advantage of
> this, for performance reasons (see 'ldap trust ids' in the Samba 3.0
> manpages if you are interested).
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
Or does it work in 2.2.6?
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Saulius Gurklys
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