On April 18, 2015, Michael Torrie wrote: > [...]
> 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. I'll look at it. I'm just leery about the time learning a whole new database system. The SQL based DBMS systems make sense to me, so it's easy to use them. I've never really been able to make heads or tails of LDAP. I can follow tutorials okay, but only if they're literally step by step. At the moment, I'm actually suspending the Samba setup because it occurred to me that no one is using Samba anymore. So we'll see. The MySQL also has other applications that I use it for, so it's handy that way, too. Thanks for the tips, though. --- Dan On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
