Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2428 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:14 AM, G T Smith
> > The local connecting
> >  account has to be defined on the connecting machine and is mapped to an
> >  AD account (assuming the machine is using AD to supply authentication
> >  and cifs or smbfs to connect to server resources).
>
> snip....
>
> >  What is puzzling me with this query the OP is indicating that someone
> >  who does not have a locally defined account is able to login to the
> >  machine.
>
> Ah, that helps.
>
> So now the problem sounds more like:
>   1) the local connecting account is usable by anyone with an account
> on the laptop,
>   or
>   2) anyone who has an account on the domain can log into this laptop because
>      of the local connecting account.
>
> Since the OP has apparently walked away from the thread we may never know.

There is _NO_ local connecting account, _no one_ is logged in. Anyone 
that has an account setup in AD can login to the server which is not 
what the OP wants. The OP wants to restrict which AD accounts can login 
to the server.

--
Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx