[Samba] FDS + samba + add machine account script
Sadique Puthen
sputhenp at redhat.com
Mon Feb 4 09:59:15 GMT 2008
tom farrel wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2008 1:11 PM, Sadique Puthen <sputhenp at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>> satish patel wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all
>>>
>>> I have setup FDS for samba backend but i dont know how to
>>>
>> add machine account in FDS it is possible through script or manaualy...
>>
>> Better you add it through scripts. The GUI interface for FDS is not so
>> sophisticated to add samba machines through simple clicks, you should
>> have to have a lot of clicks.
>>
>> I use a simple script as below. This is used against an openldap
>> server, but there is no reason for this not to work with FDS. Define a
>> base id at /etc/samba/machineid before you start the script.
>>
>> [root at dhcp6-232 ~]# cat addmachine.sh
>> #!/bin/bash
>> uid=`cat /etc/samba/machineid`
>> nextuid=$(($uid + 1))
>> echo $nextuid > /etc/samba/machineid
>> read -p " Please enter the machine name (If your windows system name is
>> dhcp6-120.pnq.redhat.com, please only enter dhcp6-120 : " choice
>> /usr/bin/ldapmodify -a -x -H ldap://10.65.7.98 -D
>> cn=admin,dc=samba,dc=redhat,dc=com -w redsmb << EOF
>> dn: uid=$choice\$,ou=Computers,dc=samba,dc=redhat,dc=com
>> uid: $choice\$
>> cn: $choice Account
>> objectClass: account
>> objectClass: posixAccount
>> objectClass: top
>> userPassword: {crypt}x
>> loginShell: /sbin/nologin
>> uidNumber: $uid
>> gidNumber: 2515
>> homeDirectory: /dev/null
>> EOF
>>
>> Other choice is to use smbldap-tools scripts as you may wish.
>>
>>
>
> Hi
>
> Is The above script is used to first add the computer the FDS and then go
> the system and add to the samba domain.
>
> Not sure if the above script can be mentioned in smb.conf
>
No, You have to slightly modify the script if you want it to be added to
smb.conf. You need to remove the promtping and pass the $1 as the
machine name.
--Sadique
> " add machine script = /tmp/myscripts/addmachine.sh"
>
> But if smbldap-tools are used then machine can be added in fly.
>
> But there is alternative to smbldap-tools also ,
>
> The recent http://fdstools.wiki.sourceforge.net/ which can be used to do
> the following
> http://fdstools.wiki.sourceforge.net/doc_fds_commands
>
>
>
>
>> --Sadique
>>
>>
>>>
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>>>
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