On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:25 -0400, Chip Mefford wrote: > Perhaps I'm all alone out here, but I don't think so. > > I have an environment wherein all my users are virtual > and live in a chroot jail, and have no shell access > at all. The users are authenticated for email against > a mysql database. I should like to give them > access to a virtual home directory and file server > tree via samba using the same model. > > Digging through the archives and stw, I've seen > some echos of this approach, but nothing firm.
I *strongly* suggest upgrading your users to real users in an LDAP directory, with real UIDs and a shell of /bin/false. While it isn't as cute as virtual users, it is a situation shared with a far larger user-base, and therefore is much more likely both to work, and to continue to work. The pdb_mysql module, which would be a cornerstone of this approach, is currently being revived by new maintainers, but I would not start a new network on this basis. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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