Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1213 mails)

[HG <hg.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Stumbled across this about SAMBA authentication and windows

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:39 PM, jsa <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you set your windows login and password the same as your
> Linux log in and password Samba and windows just takes care if
> it automatically.  If not you have to set up samba passwords for
> every user. In the time it takes to ask about setting up an insecure
> network you could have done it the secure way with yast.

Yes, if you have the same user name as in windows and same password,
you will not need to enter them in windows even once I think, as
Windows will try those by default.

However, what has been nagging me always is why is the SAMBA
authentication separate from the general linux authentication (I don't
know the correct word, sorry)? Why not have that synced, so that when
user changes her password on the linux server, also the samba password
changes. And even earlier on, why not have that linked with
samba-users group or something, so that the users who are in that
group would be able to use samba (same way as ssh)?
Yes, I know all this can be done! But it is really, really hard. Ok,
I'm still on 11.3 so I'm not sure if this has changed :-) But it has
at least been really hard. Why not make this easy for openSUSE home
users? This is really the worst parts of setting up a home server.
Have user click "Enable Samba" somewhere in YaST and it would do all
this. Would be excellent. Any real good reason why not to do this?


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