samba - Sep 2013 - /etc/passwd backend

Hello,

I would like to understand if it's possible to use /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow like backend for LDB.
If not, would it be possible to use samba-tool or something similar to create
the new user with password hash in MD5?

Is there perhaps an API to Samba4 which can be used for user management,
especially creating/modifying users when password is MD5 hash?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

Regards,
Miroslav

On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 13:46 +0000, Miroslav Kolar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to understand if it's possible to use /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow like backend for LDB.
> If not, would it be possible to use samba-tool or something similar to
create the new user with password hash in MD5?
> 
> Is there perhaps an API to Samba4 which can be used for user management,
especially creating/modifying users when password is MD5 hash?
You should instead use nss_winbind to have the system query the users
from our ldb for nsswitch.  That way, we do not have two databases to
keep 'in sync'. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org