Hi, Is it possible to have UNIX password and samba password same so that user only need to remember one userid and password ? How to sync both this password ? Thanks in advance. regards, Karu
Vizitiu, Ciprian
2003-Jun-19 07:37 UTC
[Samba] how to make unix password and samba password same
> > Is it possible to have UNIX password and samba password same > so that user only need to remember one userid and password ? > > How to sync both this password ? > > Thanks in advance.You've looked at smb.conf, haven't you? Look at the smb.conf particularly search for "unix password sync = Yes" and related. Then man smb.conf... BTW I hope you know most of today apps accept pam for auth so you can use winbind for this. E.g. you can auth say a Courier IMAP user using ONLY samba. Man winbindd f you're going in this direction.
Éliás Tamás
2003-Jun-19 10:29 UTC
[Samba] how to make unix password and samba password same
Hi.> Is it possible to have UNIX password and samba password same so that user > only need to remember one > userid and password ? > How to sync both this password ?I had almost the same question a month ago. Pls, revise the archive. You cannot sync those two databases (samba and unix). The only solution is, to make the login script so, that when u create a new user, it will call smbpasswd and adds the same password to the samba database. Or, an other solution to tell the users to use smbpasswd after they logged in. And if they use the same password as their login password, they will have that. I think this can be the best solution. U can avoid a security risc, by not registering users who don't need samba in samba's password file. (users may do this with smbpasswd.) By the way there is an obsolete sync utility for this problem, but that copies only usernames from one password file to the other. It cannot convert the passwords. -- Thomas Elias Tel.: +3630/3299315 ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/