[plug] NIS from an NT machine to Linux

[Phillip Steege]

Basically this is the desire:
  1. Have a Linux system which will provide the NT box with the user account
information that will allow someone to login on the NT box.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:sharpe at ns.aus.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 July 2000 22:17
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] NIS from an NT machine to Linux
>
>
> 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
> -------
> Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
> Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
> Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
> Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course
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>
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