Dear Yash, The Linux Samba implementation has a feature that lets you keep Unix/Samba passwords in sync.
On a typically configured Red Hat System, you can edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and search for the following section: <quote> # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd # The following are needed to allow password changing from Windows to # update the Linux sytsem password also. # NOTE: Use these with 'encrypt passwords' and 'smb passwd file' above. # NOTE2: You do NOT need these to allow workstations to change only # the encrypted SMB passwords. They allow the Unix password # to be kept in sync with the SMB password. unix password sync = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u </quoute> While this might not be exactly what you are looking for [specifically, this method requires you to maintain two sets of users - one for Unix and one for Samba], it does help a lot. This way, whenever a user changes his password through Windoze, his Unix password would also get updated and vice- versa. Regards, -Varun > Dear All, > I have hetrogeneous network of win2k, windoz NT ,win98 and windows > XP. > Now i have installed mail server on sendmail, with squid and now > running samba in his own domain. > I have made the POP3 users as the system level accounts. i.e PAM, > > NOW what i want to ask is that is it possible that all the windoz m/c > gets authenticated for login into the windows , browsing (through > squid) ,and email (already happening ...) through linux m/c which uses > PAM. > > But samba does has it's own authenticating module SMB, > Can it be configured to use PAM authentication or any one of them. > Please assist something so that all the authentication is through PAM > or SMB only. > > Thanks & regards > -Yash > > ================================================ > To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in > subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > ================================================= -- Mindframe Software & Services Pvt. Ltd., A-50, Sector-39, NOIDA, U.P. - 201301, India http://www.mindsw.com ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
