Samba - Authenticating with Local User Accounts

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I'm looking to have my users use their local accounts on my Linux servers without the need to create a separate user/password for Samba. Is there any way to use the /etc/passwd file as the the authentication mechanism when they go to map a drive? Can this be done using PAM?

I don't want to use AD as the domain ID's are different than those on the Linux servers.

Any advice/direction would be greatly appreciated.

If AD/Linux authentication is something you'd like later, you might check into Likewise Open — Matt Simmons, Jul 22 '09 at 16:43

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 22 '09 at 19:00

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samba cannot just use passwd/shadow, because several additional attributes are to be stored.

But you can setup samba with tdbsam-backend and let samba synchronise the passwords.

Or you setup an open ldap-backend for system and samba auth. But this is not that trivial ....

answered Jul 22 '09 at 19:00

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+1 - Sometimes, the answer is 'no' :) – romandas Jul 22 '09 at 19:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 22 '09 at 16:43

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You might take a look at this resource: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Authentication-in-Samba/

it seems to cover exactly what you're looking for.

answered Jul 22 '09 at 16:43

Matt Simmons

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It covers it, but not without some additional digging. – romandas Jul 22 '09 at 19:33
I suppose the extra work makes my answer unhelpful, considering the person who asked finished the question requesting a direction to be pointed in. meh. – Matt Simmons Jul 22 '09 at 19:59

Samba - Authenticating with Local User Accounts

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