Samba

[Derek Broughton]

Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:

> 
>  > Jean-Eric wrote:
>  >>> The idea is not to synchro samba <=> /etc/passwd (that's not
>  >>> possible),
>  >
>  > Surely it's possible.
> 
> Have you tried it? How would you do that? /etc/passwd and smbpasswd are
> not encrypted the same way...

No, I haven't - I want it too.  I just didn't think it could be "impossible"
- that's why we have PAM.

> That for sure would be *possible* but not easy...

I never said "easy" :-)

> IMO, the easiest way is to turn Samba into a domain controller and to
> ask Linux to authenticate through winbind. winbind is really easy to
> setup. But there is plenty of other way to do it.
> I hope it's clear what I intended to say.

OK - now it is!  I, and others apparently, thought you meant to authenticate
via a Windows DC.  I'll look into this.  "Really easy to setup" sounds
good :-)
-- 
derek