[Samba] LDAP auth without unix account

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David Bronson wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am using Samba 3.0.beta2 and have successfully set up LDAP auth on the
> PDC. Thanks for a really great tool.
> 
> I would like to enable samba logins without users actually having a
> unix account on the machine. Home directories are mapped to another
> samba box with policies. I have enabled nss_ldap, but users without a 
> unix account get nt_status_logon_failure. When I add the unixaccout and
> delete the ldap entry an recreate the user in ldap, the login works. Do 
> I need to add the posixaccount attribute to make this work? I have googled 
> but found no help so far, if there is a link I overlooked, I would appreciate a

getpwnam() must succeed.  You can use nss_ldap or nss_winbind.




cheers, jerry
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