Well, if I sync samba with the unix password database then this could
work... I'll look into it.
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Gonzalo.
George Vieira wrote:
>
> yellow pages `yppasswd` is one way.. when the user changes their password
> then all servers update the unix password... (not samba password though)..
>
> thanks,
> George Vieira
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gonzalo Servat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 9:20 AM
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> Subject: [SLUG] Authentication Question
>
> Hi Slugers.
>
> I have a question regarding authentication with Samba and Radius.
>
> I have a setup of 3 computers. One of the machines will be the main
> firewall (which will also handle PPP dialin using a 8 port serial card),
> the Second machine will be the main Password/File Server (using SAMBA)
> and the third machine will be the main proxy/e-mail server. The firewall
> machine will have an external IP address as well as internal and the
> other 2 machines will only have internal IP's.
>
> I was hoping I could get some suggestions as to how I can go about
> sharing the passwd/shadow file across the network (in a secure way) so
> that if the File Server has all the employee's added to it and so that
> the e-mail server will be able to authenticate users from the main File
> Server. Also the firewall will be taking care of the PPP dialin so this
> machine will also have to authenticate users from the main File Server
> machine.
>
> How could I go about doing this? I thought maybe NIS will do the trick
> but I have been told Samba and Radius don't support NIS. Another (rather
> un-secure) way of doing it is to configure scp on the 2 client machines
> (firewall and proxy/e-mail server) to download the passwd and shadow
> files from the file server every few minutes but that's not secure and
> surely there has got to be a better way of doing it.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gonzalo.
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