Tim, Are your using Suse SLES7 or Redhat? What level of Samba or you using?
Phil Thanks for the response, I missed your first reply it got caught in one of my clean out the inbox whirlwinds. Tim Verhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Philip J. Tully wrote: > > > Is this using the winbind portion of Samba? Has anyone used Winbind? > > See below for answer. > > > > > Tim Verhoeven wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 13 May 2002, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > > > > in our company our passwords are synchronized with a tool called pass-go. > > > > > My idea is to also synchronize the linux passwords with our RACF or > > > > > lan-passwords. > > > > > > > > > > Pass-Go is not available for L/390.. bad luck. Out domain controller is > > > > > OS/2, so it is unfortunately not possible to synchronize via samba. > > > > > > > > Have you actually tried? Linux can authenticate against an NT server, though I > > > > don't know how it's done. > > > > > > You can do this with PAM, there is a module called pam_smb_auth that lets > > > you authenticate against domain controllers. > > > > > > Basic setup is just adding this module to the auth section of the pam > > > config files. > > It depends on how tight integration you want. > > With pam_smb_auth you can only authenticate to a domain. In short use the > passwords that are stored in the domain. > The users still have to be present in the /etc/passwd file. > > The winbind daemon uses nss to import the domain users and groups into the > UNIX/Linux environment. This means that all domain users appear to being > added to the /etc/passwd file. This is done by a library thats is the link > between the winbind daemon and nss. > Winbind also included a pam module that also allows you to authenticate > users that are in the domain, so this pam module is simular to > pam_auth_smb. > > So the choice is : > > - only passwd integration : pam_smb_auth > - user integration : winbindd + winbind nss library > - complete : winbindd + winbind nss lib + winbind pam module > > I'm using the second to import users for a Samba file and print server. > > Regards, > Tim > > -- > =========================================================================== > Tim Verhoeven > Linux & Open Source Specialist > GSM : 0496 / 693 453 + e-business solutions > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] + consulting > URL : www.sin.khk.be/~dj/ + Server consolidation > ===========================================================================
