Implementing this type of support into Samba doesn't make a lot of sense, simpily due to what Samba does... file sharing w/ fine grained permissions.
Applications like Email, where you may have hundreds of thousands of POP users is a different situation, b/c there is no need for file level permissions on the email-- as only the MTA and the POP server ever have access to the file. Implementing "virtual" users would require building a lot of redundant information into a database that the filesystem already does for free. And in the end... what advantage would there be for implementing virtual users for Samba? Matt Pavlovich On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 14:14, Lee wrote: > Hello, > > I have finally got Samba up and running in a basic config. But I was > wondering, most modern UNIX/LINUX software these days (qmail, proftpd, > postfix, and more) allow you to get user to login and then have the > authentication come from some other method, therefore removing the need for > users to have system accounts on the server. > > Is it possible to have a similair "virtual" user system with samba. Perhaps > other users would be interested in such a setup. > > Cheers > > Lee > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
