There would be no local accounts. All user info is in the LDAP database. The samba auths against a NT PDC.
-----Original Message----- From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:38 AM To: RedHat List Subject: RE: LDAP on Redhat. So the user would have an account on the linux machine. When they try to login, redhat would look to ldap to check authentication? If so, that sounds pretty good, but what about other modules, such as Samba? Since it uses smbpasswd, it would probably not use LDAP. Is that correct? Thanks, James On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 10:16, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: > I believe it would auth users against said LDAP server and not the > passwd/shadow files > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:07 AM > To: RedHat List > Subject: LDAP on Redhat. > > > When you're given the option during the Redhat install to select LDAP > and specify an LDAP server, what does that really do? I know what LDAP > is, but when you enable it in this fashion, what does it do for Linux? > > I looked over the LDAP howto, but I'm not sure that was referring to > LDAP in the same way. It seemed like it was referring more to running an > LDAP server not enabling LDAP support. > > Is there another howto I should be referring to? > > Thanks, > James > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
