Greg,
Thanks for confirming that I am not completely Crazy ( at least
not in this case ). I just noticed that I did one of the things that is
done way too often with Email lists, I failed to keep this on list when I
replied to you... Thus leaving impression on the list that there was a
ready solution to this issue...
List members, I apologize for my oversight ...
At 09:20 PM 11/1/2004, you wrote:>heya Kevin,
> yes i may of jumped the gun there, sorry about that. will read all
> of a post next time. but anyway there are a few things you could do,
>on the nis server create a smbpasswd file and push that to your
>servers. keeping the files in sync will still be required but a script
>can take care of that for you. while poking around after reading this
>letter i did find something which might get you started:
>
>http://perlmonks.thepen.com/135685.html
>
>good luck with things
>greg
>
>Kevin M. Barrett wrote:
>
>>Greg,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, but I have also done a google search and
>> also get some 21K hits on "samba NIS Passwd" and none of them
seem to
>> have the How-to's that you elude to. Could you please send me the
link
>> to one of the how-to's that you speak of?
>>
>>Thanks Kevin .
>>
>>All of the How-Tos that I see have to do with changing the samba
password
>>as well as the YP password at the same time ... not in using the NIS
maps
>>directly ..
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
>>At 07:31 AM 11/1/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>>Kevin,
>>>
>>> My understanding is Samba has been able to authenticate against a
passwd
>>>map for a very long time.
>>>
>>>For kicks I did a google search on "samba NIS passwd" and
it returned over
>>>36k results, 7 of the first 10 results have howto links...
>>>
>>>
>>>have a great day,
>>>greg
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > I believe that I have asked this in one form or
another, but I
>>> > did
>>> > not see an answer. ( it could be that I missed it ) do please
forgive me
>>> > if I did, but could I ask you all to humor me for a moment.
>>> >
>>> > Is there any way to get Samba to use YP ( NIS ) as
the basis for
>>> > user authentication? If not at this time ( as I have not
been able to
>>> > determine that it is available) is it on any todo list at all
?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks ..
>>> >
>>> > Kevin
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Kevin M. Barrett
>>> >
>>> > KMB IT Consulting, Inc
>>> > 508-450-7717
>>> >
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>>
>>
>>
>>Kevin M. Barrett
>>
>>KMB IT Consulting, Inc
>>508-450-7717
>
>
Kevin M. Barrett
KMB IT Consulting, Inc
508-450-7717