LDAP and /etc/passwd accounts

[Jochen Schneider]

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> 
>   Hello!
> 
>     I've just configured SAMBA to use the accounts in the LDAP database
>    (thanks to Ignacio Coupeau for his documents) and seems to work fine.
> 
>     But I only have a question. It seems that the user account must also
>    be in the /etc/passwd file for this to work. What I'm asking is if this
>    is going to change when I configure my system to use PAM and LDAP using
>    nsswitch, or if this is still something that must be worked on by the
>    Samba team.

Nsswitch with LDAP works just fine an keeps Your /etc/passwd short.
Nothing to worry about.

>    José Carlos García Sogo
>       jsogo at debian.org
> 

Have fun,
 Jochen
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