This sounds like a situation just crying out for Winbind authentication. I'd say set the boxes up for that rather than messing around with the /etc/passwd files.
With Winbind, you don't need "local" accounts. On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 08:17 +0900, Michael Heydon wrote: > Shain Miley wrote: > > Hello all, > > I was wondering if anyone knew a way to configure samba so that it > > does not use /etc/passwd for a list of users,group id's,etc. I am > > currently setting up a server to authenticate against AD. I have that > > configured fine. The overall goal here is to provide a samba backup > > to our existing fileserverserver. Here is the problem: we need a way > > to sync the info in /etc/passwd between servers, these two serves will > > have a different list of users,groups,etc. So instead of writing a > > script that will compare the two and add the ones as needed (as well > > as do a bunch of other cleanup work) I thought maybe I could have > > samba point to /home/user_name/passwd instead...samba has what it > > needs..and the accounts on the server itself (/etc/passwd) can be left > > untouched. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Shain > > Samba doesn't look at /etc/password directly, however it does require > that any user who connects must have a valid uid on the server. I can > suggest a couple of ways you could hack something together to make it > easy to sync parts of /etc/password between machines but I would suggest > checking out ldap first. > > *Michael Heydon - IT Administrator * > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
