Hi Everyone, Been following this a bit; faking out nsswitch with the ldap stuff seems like a HIGH and complicated price to pay for getting a passwd program that will work to change passwords for standard unix users. One of the other things I have seen is a simple script that moved and replaced the winbind enabled nsswitch.conf with a standard one before executing the passwd command, then moved it back. Or even hack a c program together that 'gets' the username,password from the user BEFORE it exec's the actual passwd program, so you could minimize the amount of time the nsswitch.conf file would be in place WITHOUT the winbind support. Either way, this is an issue both on SUN and HP-UX systems. For the HP-UX customers, I'd like to see them submit enhancement requests through their support channel tochange the behavior of the nsswitch stuff so that we could have a code change in the OS where it belongs to deal with this. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.... Hope this helps, Don
> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Steffens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:52 > To: Ronan Waide > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Esh, Andrew; Miles Roper; > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Richard Sharpe' > Subject: Re: [Samba] RE: Winbind on HPUX11, Totally Stuck, Please Help > > > Ronan Waide wrote: > > On January 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > >>I don't have HPUX, so I don't know what to suggest for > that. I just know > >>getent won't work without winbindd in nsswitch.conf on Linux. > > > > > > I think the point that was being made is that NSS support > on HPUX only > > supports a few known types, of which one is LDAP. The discussion was > > basically about faking out the system so that what it thinks is LDAP > > is actually winbind. > > Yep. It's a HP-UX specific workaround. Please ignore it > everywhere else. > > Michael > >