[Samba] supress access to the /etc/passwd

[Buchan Milne]

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> From: "Philippe Joliet" <philippe.joliet at valain.com>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:25:29 +0200
> Subject: [Samba] supress access to the /etc/passwd
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> Hi,
> 
> I've just install samba 2.2 with ldap support, it is working just fine.
> I've create some samba users using smbpasswd and they are inserted into =
> the ldap directory.
> But, I was wondering if it was possible to delegate the full =
> authentification process to ldap. That's to say completely remove any =
> information from /etc/passwd?

Samba is doing everything from ldap, it's your unix that is getting user 
information from ldap.

You probably need to configure nss_ldap or similar.

http://mandrakesecure.net had a good article on ldap a few weeks back, 
you might want to check it out.

Buchan

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