On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 08:29, Ben Davis wrote: > I read in the Samba HOWTO Collection that every machine in the domain > needs to have a corresponding UNIX account. Does this mean whenever I > add a machine to the network, I must create a UNIX account for each > one?? Am I supposed to create Unix accounts for my users as well? > Doesn't this defeat the purpose of using a centralized authentication > backend such as LDAP or MySQL?
Correct, you must create unix accounts for all your users, and all your machines. However, this does not defeat the purpose of central authentication databases, as it does not specify how the unix accounts are created. For LDAP installations, it it typical to have the posixAccount attributes on the same ldap entry as the sambaSamAccount, and to use nss_ldap to 'create' them into unix. There is a nss_mysql module out there, I think, but LDAP is the standard way of doing this. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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