Re: Samba cached credentials?

[Mark Farmer <farmerma cromwell co uk>]

Carl Boberg wrote:
> Hi,
> Maybe a little of topic but I though Id ask anyway.
> Has anybody seen a solution where a RH4 machine that is joined to a win2k3 Domain (using ADS security)
> could use cached credentials for login when the machine is not plugged in to the network?

Not sure if it will completely solve this but it may help.

We use winbind to grab all the user/group data which is stored in 
/var/cache/samba/winbindd_idmap.tdb on a central server, this is done 
via 2 cron jobs thus:

0 6 * * * getent group >/dev/null
2 6 * * * getent passwd >/dev/null

We then use cron on each linux ads member to copy the file from the 
central server like this:

10 6 * * * scp hostname:/var/cache/samba/winbindd_idmap.tdb 
/var/cache/samba/

HTH

--
Mark Farmer
Linux System Administrator


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