On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 08:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> >   * a Samba server that is a member of a Windows domain should
> >     run winbindd to allocate IDs for users/groups in its own
> >     domain and trusted domains.
> > 
> In my specific situation, the UNIX id's are set up first so they don't conflict with 
> legacy systems/GIDs/UIDs, NT user names match the UNIX user names and users maintain 
> their own UNIX and NT passwords separately ie. it's up to them to make them the 
> same.  Is this specific situation, winbindd is going to do more harm than good, if I 
> understand correctly.  Right?
> 
> If it's only a member server then it would have to be getting its information from 
> the resource domain BDC and by the definition above this information is all wrong 
> (other than the username and password) so it would be pointless.  Or am I missing 
> something?
> 
> Where does PAM fit into this?


The PAM configuration files direct how authentication should be handled
.  Should it (application, login, etc...) authenticate of the local
system or winbind.... etc....
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