Luke wrote: oh. there's NISGINA, of course. So Luke, Please explain more. What is the mysterious NISGINA? Erik
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Erik Hovland wrote:> > Luke wrote: > > oh. there's NISGINA, of course. > > So Luke, Please explain more. What is the mysterious NISGINA?do an altavista search, and also check the samba digest archives. NISGINA makes an nt workstation create local accounts on local workstations, checking against a NIS database before doing so. actions taken: 1) ctrl alt delete. type in username / password 2) check username / password against NIS database. 3) check whether a local workstation account exists or not. if it doesn't, create one 4) allow user to log in under the local (possibly just created) workstation user account. so, it works, but only after a fashion. luke
NISgina is a relpacement for the msgina.dll ( Graphical Identificationa dn
Authorization DLL ) that validates against NIS. There are some draw backs
to it. It is really designed to run with no NT servers in place.
See http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw/unix-NT.html
for some related links.
j-
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