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  From: Toby Corkindale <tjcorkin@steadycom.com.au>
  To  : mtippett@ticons.com.au
  Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:10:10 +0930

Re: Linux Users IDs and NT

This sounds like a job for a PAM module....
Does samba support PAM though?

Toby


mtippett@ticons.com.au wrote:
> 
> Here is one for you samba people out there.
> 
> I have a customer who uses NT as their primary file server.  They have
> a Web Server running on a Linux Box.
> 
> The intent is that the users can connect to the Web Server and modify
> their files through Samba.  The system has been added to the Domain,
> and the few users that are on the machine authenticate through Samba
> to the NT domain.
> 
> The question is...
> 
>         Is it possible to synchronise the user names on the web server with
>         those on the NT domain?  I have read of support for 'on the fly'
>         addition of locked userids to allow the file system access to get
>         a user id against it.  But it isn't clear what 'best practice' is
>         in this respect.  Security in this environment is not paramount,
>         so locked accounts getting created isn't too much of a problem.
> 
> My guess is that something like a weekly cron job to pick up a username/
> group list to dump on the Linux Server would be appropriate.
> 
> Has anyone done something similar to this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matt
> 
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