On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 02:21, A. S. wrote:
> "John H Terpstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, A. S. wrote:
> >> Correct. When you configure samba with "security = domain" you re telling
> > it to be a domain member server. Domain members do NOT provide the
> > netlogon service nor do they partake in domain user management services.
> > Both these services belong to the domain control arhitecture.
> >
> > To do what you want you will need PAM and Winbind support.
> 
> PAM and winbind support is enabled via configure.
> 
> > See above. To auto-create home directories you will need to configure
> > pam_mkhomedir.so support also.
> > Good, so the missing magic is pam_mkhomedir.so.
> 
> How do I enable pam_mkhomedir.so support? I can not find any reference to it
> in the source packages (configure --help, find
> /usr/src/samba-3.0alpha22/ -name \*mkhome\*).

In the good history of unix (of which samba is the bastard child,
breaking most of the rules ;-) we try to have small packages each doing
their own job well.  pam_mkhomdir is part of Linux-PAM, and works for
all sorts of services, not just Samba.

Andrew Bartlett

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