From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 01:44:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02103 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 01:44:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chippie.cgu.nl (chippie.cgu.nl [145.101.220.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02098 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 01:44:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from psd@cgu.nl) Received: from localhost (psd@localhost) by chippie.cgu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7/psd) with SMTP id KAA13001; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:52:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:52:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Dekkers X-Sender: psd@chippie.cgu To: Chris Dillon cc: FreeBSD Mailinglist Subject: Re: UNIX and NT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Chris Dillon wrote: | > What are the possibilities to let NT use the UNIX password database or | > vise versa? In fact I want just 1 password database instead of 2... | | You and me both. SAMBA can pass off user authentication for SMB | shares to a NT server, but that doesn't help anywhere else. | Something LDAP-ish would probably be nice, but I know nothing about | implementing a solution like that right now. Can you tell me more about LDAP or where I can find information on that? I really don't know what it is, and heard someone else talking about the solution with LDAP. The only thing is that LDAP for NT would cost something, but I don't know if that's such a big problem... I just don't know if it is THE solution for the problem :-) BTW, there is some other product that does exactly what we want: You can find it on www.syntunix.com - I found it when searching the web. But: it's expensive, and I'd like to look at other, better, free options also. I think that maybe with the smblib we could make something too btw; you can set and compare winnt passwords, but I don't know if that really works and if that's the solution. Another solution is PAM: I don't know if FreeBSD supports PAM (I don't think so, the only unix I saw with it was RedHat) but there are PAM modules for nt-domains, so all authentication goes to NT domains from that unix box... If it would be possible to export the PAM database with NIS it would be a great solution, however I'd rather do it vise-versa: the main database on the UNIX (OR shared). Any thoughts? Paul -- Paul Dekkers E-Mail: To err is human, to moo bovine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message