Kevin, My understanding is Samba has been able to authenticate against a passwd map for a very long time.
For kicks I did a google search on "samba NIS passwd" and it returned over 36k results, 7 of the first 10 results have howto links... have a great day, greg > Hi all, > > I believe that I have asked this in one form or another, but I > did > not see an answer. ( it could be that I missed it ) do please forgive me > if I did, but could I ask you all to humor me for a moment. > > Is there any way to get Samba to use YP ( NIS ) as the basis for > user authentication? If not at this time ( as I have not been able to > determine that it is available) is it on any todo list at all ? > > Thanks .. > > Kevin > > > Kevin M. Barrett > > KMB IT Consulting, Inc > 508-450-7717 > > -- > 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
