On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:14, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > From: Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> > > I think it'll only work for NIS passwd maps, but I think that the > > netgroups map can come from NIS *or* live in /etc/netgroup. > > Right. > > But in a nutshell, I think we agree that NIS is the way to go. > Totally forgot about netgroups and using the +:::::: limitations > in /etc/passwd on each NIS client. > > All excellent suggestions. The problem is that nearly all of the people are windows users that need samba accounts to work in addition to ftp/ssh. Some maintain web content, some are customer support that need write access to the ftp server and another set does some development and testing on a different box. At various times in the past, some of the boxes were solaris and freebsd. Now they are all Linux and I'm using smb authentication against a windows domain controller but still create the accounts for each permitted user manually. Can NIS/netgroups mesh with samba authentication against a windows domain or would I have to use LDAP for better integration? Actually, I guess the next integration will be with Active Directory... This company has been acquired and the corporate parent is in the process of converting their domains now and will be including the users at this location. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com