Hello, I have finally got Samba up and running in a basic config. But I was wondering, most modern UNIX/LINUX software these days (qmail, proftpd, postfix, and more) allow you to get user to login and then have the authentication come from some other method, therefore removing the need for users to have system accounts on the server. Is it possible to have a similair "virtual" user system with samba. Perhaps other users would be interested in such a setup. Cheers Lee
Not exactly sure. I suppose one way (although very inefficient) would be to implement a single shell account for all virutal users, then using some form of database backing your store the relevent permissions and owner / group of the files. I saw one program that implemented this (I think it was one of the mail servers but I cannot be shore) in a similair way. As I said probably very inefficient, but its a start. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Cain" <jerry@cainlink.com> To: "Lee" <lee@unassemble.co.uk> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:19 PM Subject: RE: [Samba] Using Virtual Users with Samba> How would one define permissions for virtual users? > > Jerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On > Behalf Of Lee > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:14 PM > To: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] Using Virtual Users with Samba > > > Hello, > > I have finally got Samba up and running in a basic config. But I was > wondering, most modern UNIX/LINUX software these days (qmail, proftpd, > postfix, and more) allow you to get user to login and then have the > authentication come from some other method, therefore removing the needfor> users to have system accounts on the server. > > Is it possible to have a similair "virtual" user system with samba.Perhaps> other users would be interested in such a setup. > > Cheers > > Lee > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > >
Implementing this type of support into Samba doesn't make a lot of sense, simpily due to what Samba does... file sharing w/ fine grained permissions. Applications like Email, where you may have hundreds of thousands of POP users is a different situation, b/c there is no need for file level permissions on the email-- as only the MTA and the POP server ever have access to the file. Implementing "virtual" users would require building a lot of redundant information into a database that the filesystem already does for free. And in the end... what advantage would there be for implementing virtual users for Samba? Matt Pavlovich On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 14:14, Lee wrote:> Hello, > > I have finally got Samba up and running in a basic config. But I was > wondering, most modern UNIX/LINUX software these days (qmail, proftpd, > postfix, and more) allow you to get user to login and then have the > authentication come from some other method, therefore removing the need for > users to have system accounts on the server. > > Is it possible to have a similair "virtual" user system with samba. Perhaps > other users would be interested in such a setup. > > Cheers > > Lee > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba