Perhaps I'm all alone out here, but I don't think so. I have an environment wherein all my users are virtual and live in a chroot jail, and have no shell access at all. The users are authenticated for email against a mysql database. I should like to give them access to a virtual home directory and file server tree via samba using the same model. Digging through the archives and stw, I've seen some echos of this approach, but nothing firm. Can anyone please referr me to some information? Thanks kindly in advance. --
Hello Chip, Please if you find a way to do, explain me, nobody was in condition to solve the problem here. Thanks, Pierre Chip Mefford wrote:>Perhaps I'm all alone out here, but I don't think so. > >I have an environment wherein all my users are virtual >and live in a chroot jail, and have no shell access >at all. The users are authenticated for email against >a mysql database. I should like to give them >access to a virtual home directory and file server >tree via samba using the same model. > >Digging through the archives and stw, I've seen >some echos of this approach, but nothing firm. > >Can anyone please referr me to some information? > >Thanks kindly in advance. > >-- > >
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:25 -0400, Chip Mefford wrote:> Perhaps I'm all alone out here, but I don't think so. > > I have an environment wherein all my users are virtual > and live in a chroot jail, and have no shell access > at all. The users are authenticated for email against > a mysql database. I should like to give them > access to a virtual home directory and file server > tree via samba using the same model. > > Digging through the archives and stw, I've seen > some echos of this approach, but nothing firm.I *strongly* suggest upgrading your users to real users in an LDAP directory, with real UIDs and a shell of /bin/false. While it isn't as cute as virtual users, it is a situation shared with a far larger user-base, and therefore is much more likely both to work, and to continue to work. The pdb_mysql module, which would be a cornerstone of this approach, is currently being revived by new maintainers, but I would not start a new network on this basis. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20051003/54dc4a2d/attachment.bin
hi, i'm trying to use samaba 3.0.20 with mysql authentication but it fails when i try to connect with smbclient, can i get help from the new people who take care of the pdb modules? i want to ask them about my configuration problems. thanks -- Rodrigo De la Pe?a Soporte Corporativo Calipso Comunicaciones