> Re: the release of Samba3 and NUA capabilities I have found this: > > <snip> [...] > Late in the > development cycle, the team doing this work hit upon some obstacles that > prevents this solution from being used. > </snip> > > Can anyone tell me what sort of progress has been made in the NUA areas? > Specifically I want something like "passdb backend = mysql_nua".
I would imagine the passwords would be the least of the problems. I don't know of any way you could completely do away with "user accounts" or at least, entries in /etc/passwd, given that most UNIX systems lookup passwd/NIS for UID/GID on file ownerships and whatnot. You might have all "locked" passwords in /etc/shadow [or equiv], with authentication for samba being all SQL driven, but at the end of the day, the smbd needs some EUID/EGID's for the file permissions stuff. I imagine there's quite a bit of funk to get through. =MB= -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
