samba - Nov 2002 - Does samba use NSS to find users/groups ?

Hi,
  I would like to create samba only domain and
have centralized samba+system users
database in LDAP (using posixaccount+sambaccont).
  Does samba uses NSS to find users/groups info?
I mean, can I have system with users in LDAP,
but not in /etc/passwd?

Thanks,
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Saulius Gurklys

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 22:47, Saullius Gurklys wrote:
> Hi,
>   I would like to create samba only domain and
> have centralized samba+system users
> database in LDAP (using posixaccount+sambaccont).
>   Does samba uses NSS to find users/groups info?
> I mean, can I have system with users in LDAP,
> but not in /etc/passwd?
Yes, and it works quite well, because a user's sambaAccount and
posixAccount classes can both extend the same LDAP object.  Recent
changes in Samba 3.0 actually moved to take particular advantage of
this, for performance reasons (see 'ldap trust ids' in the Samba 3.0
manpages if you are interested).

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet@pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet@samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet@hawkerc.net
http://samba.org     http://build.samba.org     http://hawkerc.net
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