On 08/18/2015 01:32 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > That's what I figured. Thanks for the tips. I already wound up writing a > set of scripts to emulate useradd/userdel. Now to figure out how to tie > smbpasswd in to the pam/nss sequence, so smbpasswd -a doesn't complain when > the user isn't in /etc/passwd. :)
There's a script called mkntpwd that generates the hashes that samba uses. You can download it from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ldaputils/files/latest/download I believe you can use this to create the hashes and manually add them to /etc/smbpasswd. Though on my computer I don't have that file. It's in /var somewhere and it's in tdb form for whatever reason. Of course samba requires a user to exist or else you can't connect as that user. There apparently is a backend module for Samba that lets you use MySQL as the user database store, much like LDAP can be used: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Samba_with_Mysql If you embark down this road, I strongly suggest you switch to LDAP which is meant for this sort of thing. FreeIPA is a complete solution that involves LDAP. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
