[Samba] NIS as user authentication

[Kevin M. Barrett]

Greg,

         Thanks for confirming that I am not completely Crazy ( at least 
not in this case ).   I just noticed that I did one of the things that is 
done way too often with Email lists,   I failed to keep this on list when I 
replied to you... Thus leaving impression on the list that there was a 
ready solution to this issue...

         List members, I apologize for my oversight ...


At 09:20 PM 11/1/2004, you wrote:
>heya Kevin,
>    yes i may of jumped the gun there,  sorry about that.  will read all 
> of a post next time.  but anyway there are a few things you could do,
>on the nis server create a smbpasswd file and push that to your 
>servers.  keeping the files in sync will still be required but a script 
>can take care of that for you.   while poking around after reading this 
>letter i did find something which might get you started:
>
>http://perlmonks.thepen.com/135685.html
>
>good luck with things
>greg
>
>Kevin M. Barrett wrote:
>
>>Greg,
>>
>>         Thanks for the reply, but I have also done a google search and 
>> also get some 21K hits on "samba NIS Passwd" and none of them seem to 
>> have the How-to's that you elude to.  Could you please send me the link 
>> to one of the how-to's that you speak of?
>>
>>Thanks Kevin .
>>
>>All of the How-Tos that I see have to do with changing the samba password 
>>as well as the YP password at the same time ... not in using the NIS maps 
>>directly ..
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
>>At 07:31 AM 11/1/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>>Kevin,
>>>
>>>   My understanding is Samba has been able to authenticate against a passwd
>>>map for a very long time.
>>>
>>>For kicks I did a google search on "samba NIS passwd" and it returned over
>>>36k results,  7 of the first 10 results have howto links...
>>>
>>>
>>>have a great day,
>>>greg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> >          I believe that I have asked this in one form or another, but I
>>> > did
>>> > not see an answer.  ( it could be that I missed it ) do please forgive me
>>> > if I did, but could I ask you all to humor me for a moment.
>>> >
>>> >          Is there any way to get Samba to use YP ( NIS ) as the basis for
>>> > user authentication?   If not at this time ( as I have not been able to
>>> > determine that it is available) is it on any todo list at all ?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks ..
>>> >
>>> > Kevin
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Kevin M. Barrett
>>> >
>>> > KMB IT Consulting, Inc
>>> > 508-450-7717
>>> >
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>>
>>
>>
>>Kevin M. Barrett
>>
>>KMB IT Consulting, Inc
>>508-450-7717
>
>


Kevin M. Barrett

KMB IT Consulting, Inc
508-450-7717