> Message: 20
> From: "Philippe Joliet" <philippe.joliet@valain.com>
> To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:25:29 +0200
> Subject: [Samba] supress access to the /etc/passwd
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> Hi,
>
> I've just install samba 2.2 with ldap support, it is working just fine.
> I've create some samba users using smbpasswd and they are inserted into
> the ldap directory.
> But, I was wondering if it was possible to delegate the full >
authentification process to ldap. That's to say completely remove any >
information from /etc/passwd?
Samba is doing everything from ldap, it's your unix that is getting user
information from ldap.
You probably need to configure nss_ldap or similar.
http://mandrakesecure.net had a good article on ldap a few weeks back,
you might want to check it out.
Buchan
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