Thanks Peter I will have a look at this.
Also on another note has anyone been able to get samba to expire passwords and pass on the warnings to windows? > > Hi all, > > just wondering if anyone has built an email server that would work under > > a windows environment. I would like to build an email server that would > > build mail boxes for users in a w2k environment. I was thinking of using > > samba to authenticate the users my issue is creating users (I think > > samba could handle this as well). > > > > Would I be correct in my assumption? > > Disclaimer: I haven't actually done this - this is all my arse talking > here. :-) > > You should be able to take care of all of this using PAM (pluggable > authentication modules). Your Linux box already uses PAM to > authenticate, most likely with modules that just do usual Unix auth with > the shadow file. > > There's a pam_smb module that can authenticate against an SMB server > available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pamsmb/ . You can also use > PAM to do on-demand account creation once a user has been > authenticated. A google search like > http://www.google.com/search?q=account+creation+pam should help you out > there. > > Other useful resources would be the Linux-PAM System Administrator's > Guide (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.html) > and the User Authentication HOWTO > (http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/User-Authentication-HOWTO/index.html). > > G'luck! > -- > Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
