"Bradley W. Langhorst" wrote: > > > It would also be nice if there was a way to alias all the system machine > > accounts into one system account (and, for that matter, the samba machine > > accounts into one samba account) and have samba do magic to keep what it > > needs seperated out somewhere I don't have to worry about (Is this kind of > > stuff in secrets.tdb?). > the aliasing idea can't work because each machine must have its own > password(it's updated automatically every x days) > This is not strictly true. The machine passwords are kept in the file smbpasswd not in /etc/passwd. You could hack smbpasswd to always create machine accounts with a fixed UID. Then you only need one account in /etc/passwd with this UID instead of one account for each machine.
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