On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 00:10, Nejc Skoberne wrote:> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if it is possible not to have Samba users as
> UNIX systems users (at least without system passwords!), if I use MySQL
> backend with Samba 3.0.2b?
>
> Also, is there any good documentation about Samba and MySQL
> cooperation besides Samba HOWTO?
>
> My goal is to use same MySQL database (same users table!) for Samba
> authentication, Postfix, Courier-IMAP and ProFTPd.
I would strongly suggest LDAP for this goal. The nss_ldap module is
mature, and many system services can authenticate against it. Samba
uses pdb_ldap to access it's attributes.
If you must use MySQL, there is an experimental passdb backend for
MySQL, but you must also use nss_mysql etc.
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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