On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:05, Herb Lewis wrote: > "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. sure - you could also use one of the nua passdb backends in samba3.
I should have mentioned that in my first response. thanks for the clarification. brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
