[plug] NIS from an NT machine to Linux

[Richard Sharpe]

At 07:11 AM 7/7/00 +0800, Phillip Steege wrote:
>  I have a co-worker who wants to have user accounts on a Windows NT box and
>be able to login to his Unix machine using those accounts.  I had heard that
>Samba can act as a Domain Controller.  Can it also perform serving of
>accounts like NIS does?

I assume here that the way your co-worker wants to do things is the following:

1. All account info held on an NT (or Samba) PDC.

2. When a user logs into Linux/UNIX (for some subset of UNIX that supports
it), their authentication is done against the PDC?

If so, there are solutions for this using PAM today (pam_ntdom, for
example), but they require that there be an entry in /etc/passwd (or
wherever) for the UNIX machines, and it only works for PAM-aware Unices.

However, the latest stuff (read, bleeding edge) from Andrew is WinBIND.
This uses nsswitch to allow all pwent, grpent, etc stuff to come from a PDC
(NT or Samba), and removes the requirement to have local accounts.

>Regards,
>Phil
>
>
>

Regards
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